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Change has always been constant here. Cheezburger began as a single site, evolved into a network of blogs, and is now a social platform where everyone can express humor through memes, sites, and friends.

To follow our mission to “make the world happy for five minutes a day,” it became clear that we would need to overhaul the Cheezburger technology platform. Since that realization 16 months ago, we’ve been building new technology from the ground up.

This transition started with the launch of Cheezburger Sites which gave you more control over how you express your sense of humor. Tens of thousands of you have created your own site on Cheezburger. It’s awesome.

The next phase is to move all the sites we operate to our new technology platform.

Leaving the Nest.

As regular visitors know, we have been “beta testing” this for several months: getting feedback and making the changes you’ve requested, such as comments, voting, recaptioning, etc. We can’t implement everyone’s request, but after four months, the surveys and data say it’s time for the new Cheezburger to fly.

Starting next week, Cheezburger will look different to some, (See: ICHC, FAIL Blog, Memebase, TDW) and will be served from our new technology platform. (If you’ve already been using the beta and have given us feedback, thank you.)

We’re Listening, and We’ll Keep Listening.

We firmly believe in making Cheezburger faster and easier to use, so that you can get your funny and share with your friends effortlessly. We know the road is long, and we’ll continue to listen.

Does this mean that we will no longer have the option to opt out and stay with the ‘old ICHC’? I hope that those of us who prefer the old format will be able to continue as before. For me, the interaction with like-minded people is very important, and will be more so as I become less able to get out and about. Lolcats has kept me from climbing up the wall during enforced confinement to the house. I am not sure that the beta version will give the same community feel that is, to me, the most important part of ICHC as it is at present. I hope this is not kthxbai.

The comment system on the old Cheezburger is a WordPress product, as the old Cheezburger operates on WordPress. If you set up a gravatar with WordPress to use with your Cheezburger account, you are not required to log into WordPress to comment each time. Now that we are migrating over to the new Cheezburger, we have a Cheezburger commenting system that is linked to your account and your comments will post under your username.

“Log into WordPress each time”? A lot of people use WordPress on the old cheezburger. Me being one of those people. And I find it easier than using the new Cheezburger’s comment system. Are you planning to include an option to use WordPress? Or do we have no choice?

Hey hmph! Your first comment never appeared, so I’m guessing that it was a connection error. All the other comments appeared in moderation. (All comments are sent to moderation for this blog). Also, this blog is not a beta site:D

Thanks Will! I have no idea what it could be. It happens to me often, I thought this was a beta page… being all white and painful to look at. I am sorry. I was up till three writing that thing and I had to be to work by seven (which means the alarm goes off at 5!! And it was a VERY long day at work… I suspect yours has been rather long too… given this blog reply list). I would reply to you instead of me in this thread, but you don’t have a ‘reply’ button on your last comment.

Hi annipuss- Hope all is well! I’ve missed chatting with you. When we do completely move over to our new platform, there won’t be the option to opt out and stay on our old ICHC. We know how important having a community on ICHC is and the ability to interact with other Cheez Peeps. So we do have comments on our new platform and those comments are linked to your profile, so you won’t have to login to a different account and you can comment using your Cheez profile. We also are working on moving the comments from our old platform onto the new platform, so users can still look up older conversations or continue with any favorite conversations from the past. We also are working on more ways for people to interact on the site, so stay tuned for more on the new platform. Please let us know if you can any other questions, and we really hope that this is not kthxbai and o hai to a new phase of Cheezburger.

Hi Lara – Do you know if your work computer system allows javascripts? This commenting system requires javascripts to be enabled. If you are experiencing any more trouble with comments, please feel free to email us at contactus@cheezburger.com and we can help troubleshoot. Thanks!

However, I’m not sure if there’s more going on. The comments on most sites, fueled by systems such as Disqus are blocked, and anything and everything to do with Facebook and Twitter or any other social media is blocked.

When I’ve looked at the comments from home on and off, it seems that most of the people I know from various Cheezburger sites have left. All I see is a wasteland of post after post with zero comments, maybe 1 or a wild 2 here and there, so I’m not sure it’s worth too much effort anyway. The people and the discussions with those people were the main reason I came to the sites.

That’s why I stuck with the old-style pages for as long as I could, because the commenters on the new pages were unfamiliar, and the comments were much ruder and more acerbic (much like facebook comments) which made me not really interested in making friends with those who wandered in from there.

I appreciate the personal reply, and having done your job for another company, I feel for you having to deal with all of us grouches. We’re just sad, I think, that our daily time-waster has changed to the point where it’s not worth wasting the time. I’ll probably get a lot more work done, though!

I’m not sure what the issue is, where the Java script is taking us (idk) but my work also filters out the comments. Obviously I cannot change my work PC either. Meanwhile, wordpress had no issues, because it was simple. Simple = Better. Complex/Flashy/Web2.0 = Far Worse. I understand the need to update, and I’m sure you wasted a lot of money on the new format… but you’re new format is driving away visitors. Biggest issue was there seemed to be little input on the Beta because all users were so hindered by it they just stuck to the old page – so the beta test that was done was limited at best. I’d suggest more testing at least… taking the loss as is in a worst case situation.

Ha ha, of course the first comment is “can i stay with the old?” Will it ever be different… Thing is, I don’t see much change (except from Facebook/Twitter endorsement), things are just moved around a bit. The problem I do see about the new design is that it’s not gracefully degrading (those of you that care will know).

Ugh. I agree. The new version is slow, cluttered and doesn’t work in older browsers. I don’t get this weird compulsion to redesigns websites that worked perfectly before, is it just for the sake of being “modern”? The result is almost always less usable.

What Annipuss said. We had so many like-minded friends and now I hear the death-knell of the LOLcats. I, too, had enforced confinement of the house. I am not sure, as well that this beta version will give the same feeling of the community that we have. I am not happy with many of the changes but I know you won’t listen to us and will continue the way you are going. ICHC helped when my mother was ill and I took care of her. The community rallied and helped. Like, annipuss said, I hope this not the case that we will lose the community. I tried to comment and comment but your beta kept me out and rejected me. So. kthxbai.

Completely agree, hate the new look, won’t bother to come back very often. I liked having all the cats with cats, dogs with dogs, etc. New look clutzy, irritating, and not at all what I loved about this site. Can we please opt to still get the old format?

PLEASE don’t change The Daily What to the new format. I’ve just done a side-by-side comparison and besides being easier to read, the old format holds 10 items per page compared to 7 on the new ‘improved’ format. Why change to a format that is so much more difficult to read?

I agree. (I can’t comment without replying to someone anyway for some reason….)
No Cheezburger Confidentals (however you spell it), and no tags to let you choose if you want to look at pics only on that topic? I gotta say, CheezBurger, this is the worst thing you’ve ever pulled onto us. If we don’t get the old format back, or at least get the option to, we’re leaving CB. That’s all I can say. You where good while you lasted. This new way murdered LOLCats. Bye.

Oh, Annipuss! I finally find a familiar name somewhere here! I can’t see any of our lolspeak comments, don’t know how to find them,(if any where)
Do you know where they went? that was the best part of the site

I am a Lolcats regular commenter and have already given feedback relevant to the Beta Lolcats site since it was opened for comment. Here is some more on a single subject, Tweets as comments.

Having just taken a look at the Beta Fail Blog site, I am dismayed that there are so many Tweets posted into the comments. Please look at this example : http://cheezburger.com/6493246720#comments . On the home page, it said “17 comments” and the text on hovering the mouse, before clicking, is “Join the conversation”….. There were only 2 genuine comments and they are pushed out of sight (beyond the “More” prompt) by the 15 Tweets that were made later than the comments.

No doubt you would be happy to have more visitors to the site as a result of the Twitter publicity but please reconsider whether Tweet content really deserves a place in the comments and possibly allow the tweet but block the comment. They almost all look the same and include a URL which only loops back to the very same Cheezburger page. If the Tweet ever has a personal message, it is only intended for their followers on twitter. I didn’t see any in this example Fail Blog post.

Why not tack a Tweeter’s thumnail onto the list of reposters / favoriters(?) if they really need to prove to their Twitter following that they have been to the page?

I can only see a plethora of Tweets ruining the attraction of reading the comments. For anyone who enjoys contributing to a “conversation” of fun and even wit in the comments , the Tweets and Re-Blogs appearing as comments are only going to prove a party-pooper.

I agree 100%, those aren’t real comments they’re just annoying generated comments to say who reposted it. It can be REALLY annoying when you are trying to find actual comments and all you find is reposts.

Also, I don’t like the absence of any type of search engine on the different sites. I’m already not a fan of the infinite scroll…..now, if I’m on, say, Fandom, and want to find any listing involving the Avengers, I just get to scroll forever instead of pulling what I’m looking for?

At some point people are either going to commit to having to check in every blessed day to not miss anything, plus spend a long time GETTING current from the beginning of time…..or walk.

Definitely agree. The knew layout is just a pain to work with and hate not knowing the page numbers and the infinite scroll seems to just make it jumpy and annoying. Would love the option to go back to the original layout, but I can understand why that isn’t sticking around. I just hope this new stuff is either tweaked a bit or is easier to get used to than it looks. I really love this site and would hate to leave it behind.

The new layout is indeed frustrating. For me, the clumsy navigation is irritating, but the damn thing hogs bandwith like nothing else.
If a new page is loaded, it attempts to get a large number of pics: it saturates my Not-too-fast-pay-per-megabyte completely, and stalls all other users on the network.
It is not just an issue with this machine (Ubuntu 10.10/Firefox 14.0.1 or Chromium 18.0.1025.151) but on all machines on my network, Mac’s and PC’s alike.

This +1. I could give a crap about the new commenting stuff, etc., that’s all good and well. But in what universe are image titles placed to the right of the image? Maybe if the site were in Hebrew or something. This is easily the worst feature of the new design. If I can’t opt out of that, well, sorry ICHC, it’s been fun.

And to be perfectly honest, it’s far less aesthetically pleasing in general. I by far prefer the old-style logos (the bit at the top where it said memebase or ICHC, with the nice picture-thingy), and now, you dare to steal this from me? It’s been fun. Bye!

My biggest problem with the beta has been that comments need javascript to show. I don’t use javascript on sites that don’t need it, and because I feel that cheezburger sites don’t need javascript, I will now just be looking at the pictures and the occasional video (but only youtube videos because I have scripts from other video sites blocked by default) and missing out on comments.

This transition will be anything but smooth though. I come here via RSS feeds, and originally only a handful of feeds forced me into the beta; when about a dozen more did in a single day, everything was much slower and some pages needed several refreshes before showing. The next day MemeBase proper (as in not the sub-sites) was reverted to classic style and the problems were 95% gone. I suspect this was due to too much traffic on cheezburger.com, where it was previously shuffled out to the main few sites (icanhascheezburger.com, failblog.org, memebase.com etc.)

My only request is to have the mods clamp down on the blatant politics. This is a humor website, not a mouth piece for any ideology or theology. At the same time, slamming ideologies or theologies is also not conducive to return visitors.

Actually i liked the infinite scroll – it has saved me a lot of NEXT clicking – and i would like to see it back.
As for the fb i must admit i really don’t see what the fuss is all about – if you don’t like it just block it. I did that from the first day of testing and, as an unexpected bonus, the pages have started to load a lot faster.

I don’t like infinite scroll because not only does it continue to scroll, jump, and such when you put the scroll bar at the bottom it also loads like crap and when something takes longer to load higher on the page what you are looking at jumps down and you lose your place. If I want to see something from yesterday, it is almost impossible to jump there (go to page 2 or 3) without losing where you are.

As for fb. It is fairly well documented why fb sucks. It isn’t a benefit of this website (not any website, actually) because it takes people away from here (the time for cheezland is siphoned away to fb which is an even BIGGER time suck- I have lost a few cheezpeeps that way).

I fought for Cheezcomments because I don’t think it is right to have to join some *other* website (with security issues!!!) just so I could comment on my own lols. I never said we couldn’t have an fb presence. I just think that having it before you get to the cheezcomments or before any other cheezfunction is WRONG.

Frankly, fber’s would be just as happy with a little ‘f’ button, they don’t care about cheezland. They just want to post something to their own wall because they understand we have excellent content here and are basically using it so they can try to look clever/cute without putting any effort in.

Also, having fb comments above the Cheezcomments shoves the Cheezcommentary down and what happens if there happens to be a lot of fb comments? Does it push the cheezcomments right off the page?!

Monetarily, it doesn’t work either. The content here is visual (and sometimes audio), and people see it somewhere else (fb) then there is no need to come see it here.

IF we are lucky someone will see the content on a random fb page and MAYBE it will be tagged (or whatever they call it) with the cheezburger site addy (HA!) so they will know it came from here and then they will come here to look at other kittehs/puppies/politics/celebs and maybe grab something for THEIR fb page.

Why would you put the vertical scroll at the bottom of the page? And why use it and not the scroll wheel? Anyway, i find it a lot easier to just flick the scroll wheel a little more in one direction than to scroll to the bottom of the page, click on a button then scroll some more.
As i said all your problems can be very easily solved by simply blocking everything fb related – ads, comments, the lot. So in the end you’ll have on the page just the title, the picture, the suggestions (now in a crappy format of just one button) and the comments – which indeed need some polishing, the older version was better.
BTW your loading issues are caused by the ads, block them and the page will load instantly – of course depending on your ISP’s speed.

I put this here because your comment does not have a ‘Reply’ button, it is odd but it seems to be random.

Now, about that scroll bar: Why use it? The scroll bar is part of the experience of this site and it should work smoothly (aaaand it is all I have for scrolling- no roller ball, scroll wheel, or touch pad).

As for the loading problem: Anyone should be able to use this website without having to re-write it to enjoy it. Not that I wouldn’t enjoy an fb-free site, but I (and many others) try to enjoy Cheezland on lunch or breaks at work using a computer provided by their employer and don’t have the option of installing anything, including a blocker, there.

Yes, the reply system in here is borked. Well, that’s life, moving on.
As to modifications: you actually don’t have to install anything. I also use a work pc at this moment, just that i run Opera in a portable environment (from a USB stick). With it you don’t need to install anything extra – to block stuff you just need to put in the profile folder 2 files : one to block the ads and one to block everything else that you don’t like. So as long as you can have access to the USB ports you can do the same. There is even a way to run it even if you don’t have USB access – you copy the Opera folder created by the installer on your home pc to a cdr, then you copy it from the cdr to the hdd of your laptop and run it from there – No other traces will be left on your laptop and if you need to get rid of it just delete the folder.

You have a lot more freedom with your work pc than I do. I use a ‘communal’ pc on my lunch break (they monitor the activity). The actual computer part is hidden away (I have found it and tried the USB port thing for some work I was doing on some pictures… it wouldn’t allow it…surprised they haven’t locked that cabinet door since then) basically, I have access to a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse (and darned lucky to have that) *and* have to leave it as I find it.

I hate to say it, but not having the option to stay with the Old Cheezburger is probably going to lead to me visiting the sites less. I do not like the new format in the slightest, as sharing any links in the new format will regularly freeze up my browser for a good minute or two, no matter what browser I use. This is on two separate computers (work and home), so I don’t think the old sluff-off of “It’s your computer” applies. I honestly don’t see what the problem was with the old format. Sadly, I think my days of leisurely perusing my Cheezburger sites when I get home from work, and to find funny, relevant memes and such while I’m at work, is coming to an end. So long, thanks for all the fish, and yeah, you screwed it up.

I agree with this. It’s funny that websites try to “fix” what isn’t broken by redesigning everything.

I laughed when Ben said, “We firmly believe in making Cheezburger faster and easier to use, so that you can get your funny and share with your friends effortlessly.” The fact of the matter is, it’s already easy to share things with friends. He acts like it was pulling teeth to share something, when it was quite simple.

This site is already great, and doesn’t need changing in anyway. It’s a shame that people behind websites get board and redesign everything because of it. They could at least let people stay with the old site.

I couldn’t agree more. This has gone past persona taste for me, and it has actually effected my browsing experience. I usually get on Cheezburger after work and it was my way of unwinding.

Now i have to deal with a bright white screen glaring at me as I browse, that is if it even loads, and the generally clunky experience just makes it hard to relax and enjoy the content of the site.

I also used to love looking at the comments, which have now been snuffed out due to the poor redo of the comments section.

But what upsets me the most is that this has been FORCED on us, while you blatantly ignore our comments on what we think. Its just plain rude to act so ignorant that you think you are to good to be replaced with another site.

This. I offered feedback when they first debuted the new layout saying it was clunky, less aesthetically pleasing and a blatant attempt to make money off of Facebook integration (which doesn’t enrich the user experience). Since they’ve ignored mine and countless other people’s criticisms, it looks like I have no choice but to say goodbye to the cheez.

It sucks, I used to love this website. It’s just not as amusing with the redesign, which is pretty amazing considering the content is the same as ever.

So far, I’m very disappointed with the recent changes. You’ve gotten rid of some awesome sites, including 5 minute getaway, in favor of lower quality sites. And I’m hating beta! I’ve been opting out for months… I hope upcoming changes actually improve the sites I love!

What domains do I need to allow scripts from to make the comments work on the beta site? It tries to load scripts from about 14 different domains, some of which I’d never allow scripts from, so allowing all scripts is not going to happen.

On the old site, comments worked fine without any scripts enabled at all so it wasn’t an issue.

Emily. You guys say you listen to us. i believe you don’t. look at the comments. go back to the original Cheezburger, or you’ll see a ton of deactivated accounts due to the beta. You don’t want that, do you?

Honestly, the only thing I am not good with in the new platform is that the titles of the pictures are not on top of the pictures. They are over to the right side, and I daresay that most of your readers read are left-to-right and top down. Just can’t get used to the titles being on the right.

To be honest, I don’t view any of the websites through the actual website. I read them via a RSS feed in my Google Reader. Will that still stay the same or will it change? I want to be able to read them in Reader 🙂 Thanks!

You will still be able to read the posts in your Google Reader. When we switch the RSS feeds over to the new Cheezburger, we expect users to see duplicate posts for just a short period of time. This is a cache-related issue, but we have tested this and the duplicate posts will end after approximately one day.

You’re only getting double posts from one site? I kept getting them from quite a few for a while after the deluge, although they seem to have stopped, now.

Also, I hate beta. Please don’t use it. The javascript/comments thing has already been mentioned, as has twitter/comments, though I’d like to add that social media junk in general isn’t useful in the comments section, especially for us with NotScripts. I also find beta very bland- every page is white, with no immediate visual cues as to which site you are on, which I find somewhat frustrating. I like to be able to see at a glance where I am, but all the sites look identical, rather than having different colour schemes. In fact, the only thing I found good about beta was moving text to alongside the picture. That was kind of neat, and I like it as a space-saving thing, except that you don’t need to save space; there’s gobs of it everywhere and it’s very, very white. Now maybe if I wan’t using an ad-blocker things would be different, but that ain’t going to change any time soon. Long story short, beta is bad, and you shouldn’t use it.

I hate the ‘new format’ and have continued to use the old one. This is NOT just a matter of resistance to change. The new format is dumb, slow, less interesting and not worth the time. I am very sorry to read about this move, as I have always enjoyed the site. There is no way I am suffering with the new format.

Will there be a Tweet Button again? I am not on Facebook, but I do use Twitter. A lot of my friends are Tweeps, and I enjoy sharing the Cheezburger with them. I have not seen a Tweet Button yet on any of the beta sites, so I was wondering if it was coming back, and if not, is there an easier way to tweet the LOL without having to have other tabs with link shorteners and such open.

What site are you referring to? We haven’t removed titles from the post, but they do appear to the right of the post…for now. We are testing out a new layout that puts the title back on top of the post.

Why are they on the right?? That makes no sense. We read left to right. Stop testing and put them back on top. Also, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of search function. Where did that go? There are four posts to a page. Seriously…four posts to a page. The amount of clicking now required for a ten minute “let’s look at funny pics” has become obscene. I’m getting vague feelings that changes that frustrate and annoy people is deja vu….shall we start calling you Facebook for having Timelined us, and now we’re stuck with what only ICHC thinks is a good idea? No one seems enamored of these bulky and unattractive changes.

Um. I appreciate the effort behind the new format, but have you considered taking a vote?

The new format’s almost nothing but negatives for many of us. Blinky pics at top make me dizzy; fewer pics per page means I’m endlessly having to hit another page arrow and waiting for it to load; no memelist at the bottom so I can see everything at once means I have to remember which subcategory button you put things in at the top….

At the moment, even with the odd month to get used to it, I’m still not enjoying ANY of the changes except having the Cheezburger pic titles on the side rather than above the pic, where they’ve sometimes spoiled the punchline.

I’m already reading fewer than half the areas than I was because they’re just not funny enough to be worth the extra irritation. I don’t want to lose my last few pleasures here.

Some features I would like:
I can haz search bar?
I can haz “last page” link?
I can haz “next post/previous post” links on individual pages?
I probably won’t get these since I have been sticking to the classic layout for a while now and avoiding the new one. But I like the old layout. It makes more sense to me. I showed my girlfriend a post a while back on the new site and she got confused where the actual text that goes with the images in the post are. I don’t like the new layout and I hope that the features I like aren’t left out on the new site. I will be very disappointed.
FFVison

I’m gonna miss browsing all the Cheezburger-type websites. The new design is just the pits. It’s slow, it’s bulky, it’s awkward, there are clickthroughs to everything on TDW (which is ridiculous), the layout is crowded and confusing, it’s just not fun to mess with.

I also was a bit disturbed by the comments & real conversation being pushed to the bottom. If you must include the tweets and such, put THEM at the bottom.

I know you want to attract more people to the site, and I know you make your money from advertising, but the new style loads soooo slowly, and for fewer actual lol’s on a page. This problem alone might make me avoid the site in future.

Hi,
I’ve been using this site for a pretty long time, and I can’t say that I would like to move from the good ol’ cheese, but I guess we don’t have a choice anymore.
In my opinion the only problem with the new cheeseburger is that it doesn’t use WordPress to comment. It was a very convenient way of commenting and seeing the latest replies. The comments weren’t really as much comments as they were little conversations. Most people were recognized by their WordPress profile.
If you could implement a convenient notification system and the use of WordPress profiles to comment, then I would be more than happy to use the new cheeseburger.

you and your team seem to ignore completely that not every “Cheezpeep”, as you call your audience, uses a regular PC with a high end CPU, a high speed internet connection, a ton of browser plugins and a gigantic screen to visit your sites.
Many of us use small netbooks, tablets and smartphones, and we use them outside with a rather slow mobile connection – and this site is not functional with these. It has hardly ever been – and with the new Cheezburger it is even worse.

There are no pop up menus and whatever technical frills needed – but a slender, stripped-down, tidy and intuitive design which works without frills and without forcing us to activate things we do not want to activate, but shows us a nice choice of funny pictures and videos and allows us a comment now and then. This is about it.

What you are doing right now is the exact opposite. And what makes it even worse: you play Zuckerberg and ignore your users’ real wishes, yet answer their questions with stupid marketing platitudes.

Is there anyway to make the font bigger in this new format. Because of how large the photos are now and how small the print is, I find that I’m not even bothering to look at the captions that are on the right.

I’ve been guided once or twice to the beta cheezburger and I hate say it but I find it UGLY!! It’s cluttered and confusing and void of all color aside from the pictures. Having the titles to the side is confusing as well, although I will give credit for having the voting back. Speaking of pictures, they take forever to bloody load on the old version and they’re even worse on the other. Then again, that could be just me.

So how about adding some color to the buttons, not using so many blocks around the pics, and just using links instead of the scrolling pics above. Tidy up the darn page! I am in agreements with some others. If the beta becomes the new cheezburger without some more changes, I won’t be coming back often. There are other sites where I can look at funny pictures without the headaches.

The “new” Cheezburger runs VERY SLOWLY on both the Mac I use at work (I’m a reporter and we live in a Mac world) and my Mac at home. I hate it. Normally, I am fine with upgrades and changes but I will make an exception for this. Don’t break what wasn’t broken to begin with.

My one concern is, can I still use WordPress for the comments? Because it allows me to comment on pages and reply without having to go to twenty different pages. If not, could you include a system for replies?

I’m all for site upgrades, but this new make-over is just…Mehhhh. The old version was a lot better, and easier to look at. It looks like they just stole 9gag’s format or something. Don’t let it turn into that.

I don’t understand why so many sites (Google, Facebook, and now you) keep changing the format when the people who use the sites so clearly hate it. It’s fine to change the comment section, but PLEASE don’t change the rest of the format. Leave the items stacked, as they are now, not side-by-side. Please listen to your readers!!

It’s not at ALL fine to change the comments section. For many of us, the comments are the most important of all.
AND they are/were the reason that this ICHC became what it was. People came to see the :LOLs, but they stayed for the comments.

Dear Grate Cheezes in teh Skye – PLEASE reconsider what you have done here. It is AWFUL! No one likes it. No one will EVER like it. Not as much as they liked the old one.

Everyone – all of our friends – is gong to leave. You’ve ruined it for us, as far as I can tell so far. I can only hope that what you say is true – that we WILL be able to come back, and find our old LOLs and comments. I’m hoping to be able to copy them and save them forever – to remember what a very happy place this used to be.

And now I think I’m going to cry a lot. It’s like having a tornado come through and destroy your house and all of its contents. Scattering friends to the far corners of the earth . . .

Ohai, Janet,
So sad to as we all witness the demise of our wondrous Cheezland. I remember the early days when the Cheezes were looking to us for donations to keep the site alive..Now they’ve killed it themselves.. It all started with the taking away of the burgers…. Noone cared what we thought then.. and they don’t care how we feel now. This site is too difficult to navigate.. hard on the eyes and generally unpleasant to participate in.. I have spent many hours here both participating and “lurking” when I was not up to playing, but needed and thrived on the happiness that Cheezland brought to me as I read the lols and got to know both the posters and the lol makers..
So many diverse and clever people with so much to share and a community in which acceptance was encouraged and supported~ all gone now.
I agree with you, Janet. It is a very great loss.

Okay, guys, let’s be brutally honest here. The new site (beta) looks really, really bad. No one likes the look, no one likes the layout, the titles at the right, the ads on both sides of the posts, the drop-down menus for picking subsites. NO ONE LIKES IT. You beta is bad and you should feel bad.

If you’re completely obsessed with changing layouts, okay – but make the new version an improvement over the old one. If you go through with changing the layout, you will lose a lot of traffic. You’ll lose a lot of people, and it will be your own faults.

It’s not faster, it’s not easier, and people do NOT like the new look.

Beta doesn’t let you easily travel from one section to another, that pisses me off. also never ending scrolling is bull crap, not having arrow buttons make it take to long to find a post that was made a few days ago. there’s no reason not to keep it the way it was

I REALLY hope your new page is easier to read than the beta page – which I LOATHE, DESPISE, DETEST, ABHOR and ABOMINATE. Seriously, did you ever read the comments? They seemed to be running about 10% in favor vs. 90% who hate the new format, as I do.

Ugh. The new design is awful. It’s impossible to read thedailywh.at. You know what people really like? Choice. Give us the choice to see the site the way that works for us. For most people that’s the way it is now. I can’t emphasize enough that the new design is unusable.

I’m adding another goodbye cheezburger to the list. I browse the site on my android. The top bar of your new monstrosity ends up floating mid-screen on my stratosphere if I zoom in at all, and it just blocks all content. The new site design is bloated and useless. I can’t even really use it on pc on a 3 or 4g connection. It chokes. This is on two separate cellular providers. There’s something wrong when a websites design lags out a 4g connection, and it’s not the service provider that’s wrong. And seriously, the fact you’re pushing through with this despite the fact the new design has an overwhelmingly negative response is the straw that broke the camels back for me. You’ve lost your perspective cheezburger. This isn’t a unique site like Facebook where people will complain about the changes but keep coming back. We don’t have to come back. There are a million and one other humor sites all the same stuff is posted to. I used to love this site. But between this crap site overhaul and you guys getting rid of or merging some of the neat little subsites with the stupid subsites I’m done.

The new format is okay, I guess, for memebase-style sites where 98% of the relevant content is in the pictures (it’s still ugly, bulky, and clunky, but it’s at least usable).

However, when the main focus is on the text, like The Daily What and TDW Geeks, it is LAUGHABLY TERRIBLE. I should never have to click read more on TDW and suffer the outrageous load time that the new format brings yet again. And the comments are just amazingly screwed up. I used to visit TDW and TDWGeeks all the time, but if this is the new format then I am abandoning ship. I’ll find somewhere else to go for my geek news.

I have to put my 2 cents in the not really digging the new Cheez layout at all.

I have been in the “opt-ing out” category for a while now. It is a slow and clunky layout no matter what computer I am using. Pages sometime do not load at all, and need a refresh or two. Then once it is loading, it places all the elements slow syrup on multiple browsers I have tried. I see less posts per page, and the layout completely breaks the flow of how I use the site as a very casual burger browser.

This was one of the sites I would actually have Adblock off for, and Ghostery allowing your metrics. Via the old layout, I would visit this network of site 2-3 times a day. This is not going to be happening if I am forced to the new layout.

Even when Gawker changed to their god-awful new layout they allowed a “classic” type mode that more mimicked the legacy site. Ars Technica recently changed their layout, but allowed a type of “classic” mode that is very well implemented.

You are shooting yourself in the foot traffic wise if you do not provide some sort of option for the layout.

All these sites radically changing their setups, ignorantly believing that people “will just deal with it” or “get used to it” is getting very tiring. I can’t even list the number of sites on four hands I NEVER visit anymore because of drastic, unwanted, unchangeable, unwieldy layouts. Please don’t fall in that category for myself and my friends Cheezburger. This can all be solved by a CHOICE of layouts. It is not a hard thing to implement. From what I see in these comments, it is a large amount of traffic you are deciding is not worth your time even addressing or giving an option to.

I will speak with the only power I have, the micro transaction of my impression and metrics on your website is gone. Goodbye Cheezburger, it was a fun ride.

Whelp, the first day I turn on Cheez and it no longer is the old format, I’m leaving. I hope someone who never went to this site before because of its eye-gouging atrocious layout (it must have been to necessitate a costly formatting change), decides they can now frequent it because it is no longer hideous to them.

You don’t need to make things have stupid and worthless bells and whistles and “aesthetic placements” of things. Luckily Daily of the Day was created because people were fed up with The Daily What. I can only hope someone makes a similar copy of Memebase in the future. Until then, I guess I’m hanging around the chans again. They can use the ad money more than you folks, apparently.

I also give a nod to the shrewd business sense. Making more pages for fewer content means more ad revenue for you guys. Smart. Nailed the “evil corporation” style of business, offer less and charge more for it.

I have been a random viewer for this place for who knows how long. I know websites change regularly to keep up with the times or whatever, but bad change just ruins it for many people. The beta format was slow, an eyesore, and overall did not improve my browsing experience in the slightest, and I know I am not alone in this view. Mix in the slowly increasing number of inferior quality items being posted, a growing number of political items throwing views around, and an occasional horrible narrated video were already killing the number of times I bothered to visit the site. This, however, will finally end it. It was fun at one point and I did love to shoot friends a message with a link now and then. But now…I can live without it.

I was starting to dislike the duplicates across the cheezeburger websites, dogs on icanhazcheezeburger and cats on icanhazhotdog, never mind the number of sponsered videos in the middle of the whole damn thing. Inability to navigate or go to a different cheezeburger site off the one you’re on. Seems they’re totally ignoring the feedback from the vast majority that HATE the new format. Now, I’m with you. I can find someplace else to go. >As she deletes four websites from her favorites menu<

Still too white (HARD ON THE EYES PEOPLE!-like this page, for instance).

We are STILL missing the ‘suggestions’ that used to be on the right side (they took us to places we never knew and then they took us even more places when we got THERE with more suggestions). The ads that take up almost all of the first impression of the site (yeah, not a good impression at that) at the top take us to places I never want to see (advertising) or to single lols and leave you hanging… a dead end – rather unhappy-making.

It said ‘post’ next to a VERY cute little jiggling cheezburger when it *should* say ‘Favorite’ or ‘Fave’ (‘posting’ is for comments or Fb).

The ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’ were UNDER the lol in a very poor position (should be above the ‘faving’ buttons – thumbs up on left, thumbs down on right) .

These things let us vote and fave in a very economical manner (e.g. Vote up, slide mouse down a half inch or so and FAVE!) instead of fave… scroll…wait…scroll …wait…it is a multi-panel… scroll… I don’t really have time to vote now.

We are all still looking for better representation of the ‘author’ of the lol.

The Drop down menus of the sites… still TOO BIG to have such small print.

ONCE AGAIN you have listed the Fb comments *above* the *real* Cheezburger comments. I don’t understand why you seem to be not interested in having people be Cheezpeeps and comment on Cheezburger? All it takes is one Fb-er to throw Cheez on their ‘friends’ faces (post an lol to Fb) as they come up and voila! No friend or friend of a friend or friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a…well, you get the picture, will ever have to come to your website again, because they have already seen it on their fb page. Why would they bother going to the site if it is going to come to them? Any comments they want to make they can make on their own wall or whatever, and the result? NO CLICKS for YOU! CHEEZBURGER FIRST, ALWAYS!!!

Also, the ‘not really a comment’ comments (or the ‘So-and-so forwarded this lol’ comment) is not really contributing, especially since most of them just repeat the title and/or the address of the self same lol you are looking at…they are just taking up space and make it look like the cheezpeeps have nothing to actually SAY. Here’s an IDEA, how about you have a running number count of those in a little box and if someone wants to see the title and web address of the same lol they are looking at 13 times they can see it there.

I tested the Cheezburger commenting out (I made a nice comment on an lol), and it immediately disappeared upon my attempt to post it and was not listed in the number count. I suspect it went to ‘monitoring’ and there is no notification (a.k.a. ‘this comment is being reviewed’ or the like showing above the comment box) as there is in the tried and true Cheezburger. I have already reported a similar occurrence in the current Beta to the cheezpeeps at CheezHQ (but it really isn’t a high priority), being that it gives the impression that my comment didn’t register in the system and will, no doubt, cause much confusion when this happens to others as well as duplicate posts if they ever do show up.

There was probably more… but being almost three in the morning, it is all I can remember for the moment.

On the plus side, if I remember correctly, the title was above the lol… if I am wrong…please add that to your list of things to fix.

I really hope you are doing more than just listening… but understanding, approving, and implementing as well!

Having read the entire list of comments here and not having found a single positive comment about the new version, do you really think this is a good idea? I really enjoy Memebase and its many counterparts and do not want to be driven off by this change, a sentiment that seems to be shared by all here.

1. Clearly a problem on both your side (the browser) and the coding of this page – i get the same on my old Opera 9.5 that i keep for testing , but not on the newest version 12.5 . Actually in this one the format is horrid, cramped in the middle of the page.
2. The first button is practically superfluous – just delete the page/x part of the address . For the Last button – yes, they should bring it back: many people, like me, when encountering a new site prefer to see it from the beginning, even if there are over 5000 pages.
3. Yes, the removal of the Suggestions has been a bad decision. Let’s hope they will fix it.
4. NoAds or, of you’re using Opera, just righ-click on an empty section, click Block Content and ban all of them.

Every single time I tried the new system, my computer froze solid and I had to do a hard reboot. I will try to do it again once I no longer have the option of using the old one. If it does the same thing, well, it’s been fun but I won’t be back.

it used to be simple. icanhascheeseburger was for cats, ihasahotdog was for dogs. i only like cats, so i only went to ichc. then you messed it up by making ichc with dogs, cats and other animals. i only like cats! so, i figured out lolcats was only cats and i was happy again. now, what the heck are you saying? how do i go to your website which is ONLY CATS? and please stop messing things up. it is very annoying.

From what I can see, the version has way less functionality. No search function. No extras like lists of memes (unless I’ve missed them). I find it stripped down and just don’t like it. Why take the old one away? Big mistake IMHO. Prepare for a drop in viewers.

When the beta was first released, it popped up with a little box for requests… Multiple times I requested that ICHCB bring back the “tweet this” button that was once included with each post throughout the site. There is a facebook button… So why no “tweet this” button? No fair… 🙁

And i can’t e-mail pics to anyone anymore?!?! my work computer where i do all my LOLing does not support the facebook links so i cant see any comments at all & the only optin is to save something to my favorites or FB it. I cant FB at work!!!!! And i cnat share pics my MIL who is not on FB anymore as there is no “e-mail this” option either

The old (regular) site is much better. Why do people these days feel that taking something that works and turning it in to garbage is somehow progress? Let me guess – more room for advertising, new ways to track users, or something like that.

Well, I’m going to keep hitting the “back to the old cheezburger” until I cant any more. And after that… I’ll probably stop visiting, or visit much less.

I don’t think these comments actually get read by anyone who can influence the future of the site, but I’ll throw in my two cents anyways. Has Cheezburger actually reviewed if we like the new site? If there was (or will be) an actual poll done, I’d like to see the results of that. Most of the comments that express opinions (rather than technical issues) seem to not like the new site, so I’m surprised it’s going to be forced onto all the viewers without the opt-out button. My opinion may not matter to Cheezburger–heck, I don’t even think ANY opinions matter to Cheezburger–but once the opt-out button disappears, I will not be visiting the site again.

Damn it, why don’t you guys try to like something for a change. Every time something new comes to Memebase, you have to complain.
My Little Brony: SUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKS!!!11!one1!
Dolan: BOO! I HAET IT BEACAUSE IM TO MATURE TO LIEK IT!!11! BOOO!!11
New Memebase: WE WANT OLD MEMEBASE BACK!
For the record, I like all of the above (maybe except MLB, but I don’t hate them either. I’m just not a brony myself)

The only thing I didn’t like about new Memebase was that we could only post Facebook comments, and I don’t use Facebook. But now you added another way to post comments, WITH OUR OWN MEMEBASE ACCOUNTS! THANK YOU! I kinda hated to have to use WordPress. Now all you have to do is make a way for us to subscribe to posts we commented on.

Anyway, now that I’m done ranting, let me say you’ve done a great job with the new Memebase, guys. It’s not perfect yet, of course, but what is?

Well, I think that’s all I wanted to say. (I probably forgot something, but I can’t remember it right now)

I believe the problem here isn’t “It’s change, therefore it’s bad”. Had you actually -read- some of the comments, like my previous one, my issue is that the new sites CRASH my browser, on two completely separate computers, on two completely separate networks. If it weren’t doing that, I suppose I could get over the flat white color of the pages violating my eyes, with or without glasses, or some of the more counter-intuitive features.

Several other comments also mention technical problems that appear to be site-based, not computer based. So I suppose we’re just supposed to suck it up and ‘like’ something that seems broken, simply because we ‘have’ to?

Wow. Bravo, really. Very well said. Great, wonderful job crashing people’s computers and taking ALL year to load one ******* page! I’m not a super tough customer! I don’t care anything about the commenting, the lack of color, the ads, the bulky weirdness or ANY of that!!! I’m here for the love of the memes. But when my freaking computer CRASHES, oh, then we have ourselves a BIG M***********G PROBLEM!!! I’m not using BETA until they fix that issue!! Have fun being Forever alone because nobody else has that kinda time!

Dear Cheezes, Please look at this Beta Graphjam posting and try and read ALL the comments and you will see how hard it is with “View more items” scattered in the various threads / replies (in the middle of the page) and “More” to be clicked over and over after scrolling for a while or if someone posted a slightly longer post.

No, what he is asking is for the comment box to be as before – all the comments already there without the need to click the More button. While we’re at that they should thread the comment more carefully, the page is a mess and you basically have no idea who’s replying to whom.

Ohai! Yeah, I think I understand what Azrael said now. I have no influence or power, but I get it. Thanks! As for the “Previous”…I put the “Previous” there even though it was next to “1” because that is where “Previous” should be located when you are on any page other than “1” so you can go back and forth between pages. There are some sites that leave the “Previous” visible when you are on page 1. It just isn’t functional (greyed out) when you are at page 1.

wish I could but all I’m getting are loading swirls (could a dev tell us what the comment provider is so those of us with a script blocker can read the bloody comments, we should even need to separately allow comments through, the different providers for each sub function is stupid).

You don’t run it, it’s the browser that needs them. You save it to your pc then move it to the folder on which your browser keeps the scripts – from there they will be automatically loaded by the browser.

I’m not allowed to add things to my work computer. that’s why they were blocked in the first place…. I get “YOU ARE NOT AN ADMINISTRATOR, THAT FUNCTION IS NOT ALLOWED” if i try to customise my computer. 🙁

Since the new site came out, there is a lot less laughing here. And that would usually be followed by my 5 minute getaway. Soooo disappointing. I use to visit my lolcats multiple times per day. Now, Im at less than 1 time every couple a weeks. There is less to see, and it takes longer to see it. I think we’re breaking up… can we have the lol cats go to their own site, not under the new system. I think this move makes u vulnerable to a lolcat-like site coming along and luring us away with lots of cheeseburgers, but maybe its bacon, or little birdies, instead.

So are the comments ever going to work or is it going to be only Facebook members are allowed to comment? Because every single LOL in the new format that I have seen ONLY displays the Facebook comments and just has ongoing swirls where regular comments should be…

Also, since you have brought back the voting, can you please add an easy way to flag inappropriate content? Having to copy the link, open email, do up a message every time something needs to be reported is tiresome.

It’s funny – ANYtime a website changes, people riot. I don’t like the FB Timeline but my solution is simply to stick to my News Feed, which remains in the classic format (at least as of now).

Have you people ever considered that many of these changes are without choice? Website operators have plenty of things to be thinking about. The name of the game is to maximize functionality while reducing costs, and sometimes that means things have to get a little inconvenient. I’m sure you guys will live. Trust me.

And who’s to say the new site won’t undergo some of its own changes? As time goes on some things will continue to change. Don’t pretend the world has ended already, you’re still here and you’re doing fine.

You wouldn’t believe the kind of flak Last.fm is getting for their new layout, which isn’t even that much different from the one they were just using. I know that people have the right to give feedback, but the truth is, you don’t own the site so you have no right to SCREAM IN CAPS LOCK AT THE ADMINS BECAUSE YOU THINK THEY SUCK. It’s their site, they can take or disregard feedback as they please – you can’t force them to do anything.

As for me, I’ve been using the new Cheezburger for awhile now. It still suits me just fine, and I see no reason to abandon it.

No website is perfect, but it seems a lot of people feel self-entitled and bossy. I’m sure the old format had its own share of drawbacks, and a lot of us, myself included, got tired of it when the time came, so I’m looking forward to the new layout.

Don’t pretend you’ve been overlooked. It’s a few websites out of many millions on the Internet, deal with it.

I also want to point out that it seems the people who actually ARE happy with the new format have less to say and don’t comment as often, so don’t interpret all the negativity here as being the sumtotal of the userbase’s opinions on the new format. Some couldn’t care less, some love it, either way, there are more people keeping quiet than you may think. It seems the ones who love to complain speak the loudest.

congratulations you’re the only person who says they like the new layout. Well the vocal “minority” would like to voice their displeasure at this development.

Because if you’ve ever dealt with money ever in your life you should now that the consumer is always right and the developer, despite owning the service, if they know what’s good for business, will provide the service they way the consumer wants, or the closest proximity thereof. Those who ignore the consumer are oft left without them.

Well if you’re going to leave, THEN LEAVE. Don’t sit here and pout about it, LEAVE. SHOW THEM what you’ve been talking about. AS LONG AS YOU’RE STILL HERE THEY STILL HAVE YOUR BUSINESS.

If more people were this dissatisfied why are they still here whining about it? It’s not like there aren’t OTHER websites they could be using.

You know, I used to get irritated at site layout changes. Yes, it can seem like they’re ignoring the people they should be paying the most attention to. But you have to realize that there are certain changes they HAVE to make sometimes. Not all of them, but undoubtedly some of the changes they have made are necessary.

I was angry about Facebook Timeline, then I realized I could just stick to my News Feed. My world has not totally collapsed. Besides, if Timeline really pissed me off THAT much I would have just left after all. If people were this vocal in their government, I have to wonder how things would be different – instead we have people whining over website changes.

it’s funny, you say you kept to your news feed on fb even when timeline arrived. and why? because it’s still in the same format you know, use and understand.

but here we have the opposite; everything changes. i don’t remember seeing much complaint about the old ICHC, because while not top-notch, it is functional and easy-to-use.

and we’re not leaving yet because we still have a bit of faith that they may retract from fully removing the old format. the ship hasn’t hit the iceberg yet, you won’t see people abandon ship as of yet.

oh, and i like this website. just like much of the community here, i don’t want to move away unless need be. you may think of that as a kind of loyalty.

So, we have no right to type in all caps at the people who run the site, but it’s okay for you to do at another user. Got it.

(Also, FB’s Timeline has increasingly not been an optional thing. There are a whole lot of people who were switched and….that’s it. You’re there, whether you like it or not. So your pontificating about how “I just stayed with the old version”–which, incidentally, is what the majority of the commenters here are saying they want for Cheezburger–is really just useless railing. As you’re accusing everyone else of.)

Congratulations. This is probably the most hypocrisy I’ve seen in a chastisement in a long time.

@dreaming78 Yes, as a matter of fact, I can. This “bite me” person has given no indication that he’s working on the site, and he’s one of many who’ve threatened to leave. So I’ll do it again: IF YOU’RE GOING TO LEAVE, THEN GTFO.

No the new site isn’t perfect, but is this any way to handle it? Why can’t you guys just suggest constructive feedback? Make it as much of an aesthetical change, rather than a technical one, as you can.

By the way, I reviewed my comments. Where did I say, “I just stayed with the old version”? I said nothing of the sort, I said I stuck to a part of Facebook that still worked as I wanted it to so I had no reason to really LEAVE, per se. Besides, not every site revamp is bad in my book.

And while I’m on the subject, “useless railing. As you’re accusing everyone else of.” Please tell me more about reading between the lines and how you know so much about what I never said.

I’m gonna miss the gravatar functionality, could you bring that back? also it would be nice to have a “colapse thread” button (for comments with a large ammount of replies) and being able to choose a custom name even if you are logged in, I know it can be done as anonymouse, but then the avatar won’t show any picture.

Y’know, Google news was essential to me, then they changed the layout. I used Google images all the time, then they changed the layout. I don’t go to those seriously useful sites anymore; what chance do your humor sites have?

I think the new design is great-looking and easy to use, but THE SPEED IS HORRENDOUSLY SLOW, especially when it comes to gifs. The website is virtually unusable on mobile devices now as their processors cant deal with the data (hence 25 posts per page on mobile, 100 on PC), so the website clearly needs a fix.

I do not understand this. So many people hate the new version. Why is Cheezburger acting as if it is a raging success? All I can say is please, please, PLEASE, Cheezburger, hear us! The changes are not better!! They have made what was a daily pleasure for most of us unbearable. You are going to lose regular readers in droves.

If the beta becomes the only option, it’ll be sayonara Maru and all my cheezy friends.

Having read all the comments it appears that the site owners have “sold out” to GREED & “Who cares what you want, we’re doing it this way” mentality that started when Facebook started PEEPING in where it wasn’t wanted, give it time, the whole mess will all slide downhill turning into a smoking heap, SADLY they will have already sold out, taken the $MONEY$ & run out, cackling like hyenas, this appeaes the Big Business mentality in this day & age, I’ve got mine, you can go jump off a cliff for all I care.
The “new” owners will stand there blinking (like a deer in the headlights) wondering WHY everyone isn’t visiting the way they used to, if they’ve any sense they’d RE-DO the site to get everyone back, most likely it’ll be way too late for that!!
I really liked seeing all of the Keows (Kitty+Meow) at icanhascheezburger, sadly this seems to be coming to an end, I’m another one who’ll depart the site for something else, goodbye to greed!!

I’ve just read through all of the comments posted here so far. I’ve read the replies, and as far as I can see, the only official response to the complaints/comments/concerns/etc. has been that they’re going to filter out the twitter repostings. The fact that the layout is unpopular, that it holds less content, that it’s harder to navigate, and the site is bland with the white background for every site is being ignored.

This might work out okay for them – new visitors might be drawn to the site and offset the old people leaving in protest over losing the old site. Maybe they’re looking for a different demographic than the one they have now (younger? more active in social networks? I really don’t know, I’m just trying to cover all the bases). Whatever it is, they’re willing to risk alienating a sizable portion of their fanbase to do it. Since I doubt they’re stupid over there, I can’t believe that they haven’t considered this. So, any threats to leave the site over these changes will be ignored.

So, for everyone who has problems with the new layout, the only thing that I can suggest is that you do what you’re threatening – leave the site. Then, at the new site that you become a regular of, when they want to make major changes that do anything but improve things, you can point them to this place and the ghost town that it has become as an example of what not to do.

I can’t let this whole fiasco pass without throwing in my two cents, so here goes.

I don’t get to visit all the sites that I’d like to everyday. In order to do that, I’d have to be unemployed & unmarried. It would be nice to have page numbers at the bottom of the the pages so you didn’t have to go through the things that you’ve already seen to get to the stuff you missed. Call me OCD if you must but I really hate to see the page numbers go away.

I also do not (nor do I plan to) have a facebook account. If there is a way to share LOLs without one, I haven’t found it yet. I used to email LOLs and embed LOLs on my blog but those options have been taken away. Please consider putting them back.

I’ve been here for almost three years and have seen lots of changes and sites come & go. I wasn’t pleased with the ending of the collectibles and voiced my opinion (for naught, it seems). I’m not real happy about the perceived attitute of “We’re right and we’ll drive this site into the ground to prove it if we must”.

I’ll step down from the soap box now so someone else can climb atop it. I’ve got a feeling that there’s a long line.

Sirnottaguy, go to the Cheeze Town Cryer, there is a link to our new p[layground, which is like our old playground, before the “improvements” You will love it! And please, tell your friends, and have them spread the word.

As long as I don’t need a Fac-e-book account to post, I guess I’m OK with it. I’m not happy about the redesign — it’s not better looking, not really more usable, and I don’t really see the point — but it’s not a disaster.

How do we tag pictures into categories or search pictures for categories? THat’s one of the things I enjoyed most about the old site. if I wanted to look up ‘Star Trek’ cat photos, I could just search ‘Star Trek’.

I’ve enjoyed participating in the Cheezland family for three years, but with so many old friends already gone and so many more sure to leave when we are shoehorned into the new format, it’s starting to seem futile to continue. We will see what next week brings, but I’m afraid it looks like the fun is ending.

So called ‘new cheezburger’ is much less user friendly than the o’old’ one. Many folks including me have pointed out problems.

No ‘who’s talking’ list.

Constantly having to ‘click to expand’ comments, even when there are only a few comments there.

Latest comments going to the top of the thread rather than to the end where they should be (unless it is a ‘reply’), which is more logical and not disruptive to conversations going on. Silly though it may seem to you folks, on the lolcats site we like to have a friendly race to see who can make the ‘nawt sekkond’ comment. No point to that if new comments land on top.

No ‘regular’ smilies, like we can use now. The meme based ones (which we accidently discovered some of) are awful, ugly.

I am one of those who strongly dislikes the infinite scrolling. I know many peeps do like it.

Last time I checked out the beta site there was no way to search for specific older lols as we can now using keywords in the ‘search’ box.

I fear that many of the regulars will leave the site because of the beta, that would be a shame as we have a great community here. I’ll be sorry to see it go

What really bugs me about the “new” Cheezburger is not so much the commenting (albeit annoying), it’s the layout. Please consider sticking to the original layout as much as possible, as it was easy to navigate and change between content areas. Also, it was more visually appealing. Each time I click on the Olympics LOL’s I am reminded I cannot change back to the old format and then leave the page, without looking at what’s to offer, because my eyes just can’t take it.

If you’re going to make my eyes bleed, please at least make me actually LOL first instead of frantically clicking for an escape.

There’s some things I like about the new Beta format, but one of the things I don’t like is that there is no search bar. Sometimes I want to find a specific group of captions like say for example: Transformers. Usually I’d type that in search and I get all the Transformers related captions. But with the new one, I don’t seem to have that option. Also the tags seemed to have disappeared in the new Beta version, and like the search, I can narrow down the captions to specific ones. Please put the tags and the search bar into the new Beta version, and then I’ll be happy.

Well it looks like the Cheezburger network will no longer be something I visit very much. (I visit memebase daily.) And I will also stop encouraging people to come here. (I suggest to people on and offline that it’s a good site to visit)

I have seen many many people complain about the new layout. In fact there have inevitably been memes about it. Not to mention as I scroll through these comments. Every single time I get taken to a new layout site I IMMEDIATELY pop back to the old.

The new layout is a filthy mess. It’s not in the smallest been pleasing to the eye. It is terribly slow. It has no useful nice features. It’s not at all something that a person would want to visit daily. It’s, in a word, horrible.

But you don’t listen to feedback. It’s obvious since you seem to think anyone wants this crap. Even if you’re moving where the sites are based, there is no reason to make such a nasty mess of usability and aesthetics.

Of course nobody will read this. If they do they’ll just pretend this comment, and the hundreds of others saying similar things, don’t exist and pretend everyone loves the idea. The idea of an ugly, slow, useless site lagging our browsers and making it impossible to enjoy a cat or meme…

I hope maybe they read this:
NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER! NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER!
NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER! NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER!
NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER! NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER!
NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER! NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER!
NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER! NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER!

Speaking as an old lady who is technically challenged…. I FINALLY, after months, find the button that takes me back to the old format (had to get a new computer to do it) and within days you announce that my old format is going away and I will be stuck with the Beta, which is both confusing and does not have the community aspect which is pretty much the only thing I come for, essentially deliberately forcing me away from a site I love. I just don’t understand that. Why is it that you are making such an effort to drive people away, when one would suppose that you would actually want the opposite? As Annipus said in the very first comment, the interaction with like-minded people is important. Please let us have our old ICHC. I tried the Beta. It was the pits.

Well, I guess I’ll be saying goodbye. It’s not me being bitter about it or anything, I just won’t be able to use it now that you’re moving to the new site. It completely freezes my computer and it is hard to look at.

I thought the point of changing a layout was to make it more useful, faster, attractive and convenient. The new layout has managed to be the opposite of all those things.

I think the infinite scroll should be scrapped; a good many of the sites I frequent I stalked to their beginnings to entertain myself thereby cementing my devotion to them. It was nice to know how many pages (and helps to say at 4am “okay I’ll stop at 255”).
Furthermore, I have to expand my browser to a stupid width so as to see titles as well as pictures while scrolling.

Another thing: comments. The facebook thing is weird because I see people posting as if on their wall to friends and have their friends reply irrelevant things. “View More” also needs to be scrapped. It is painful to scroll through witty banter and constantly wait for more to load.

Finally: the load time to visit beta pages is painfully slow, and often requires refreshing and such when it freezes up. Never happened before and is specific to your site (fastest speed web, only client on my network, clean laptop with otherwise great performance.)

I tried to voice these concerns before but the first time beta popped up it required facebook to post and I don’t bother with that and the second time I was asked for input it was in such a way to further slow the meme-viewing.

Oh, a few more grievances.
The viewing subsites. I liked the “Network” at the bottom beneath the “next page”. Not as obtrusive. Sometimes that thing pops up unwarranted and wont go away without refreshing. It was also easier then to get connected to more sites.
Tags/subcategories. Like, memebase with specific memes and such.

Don’t have those blinking changing pics at the top. Lag, unappealing, stupid, boring, distracting. Go back to having banners and options to see the most popular/talked about.
Color code the sites like old with cool formats. Adverts need to be rearranged or something to be present and yet not so harassing. The site is now a giant advertising hoe and rarely lols.
Tidy the design. Eliminate the blocking around posts and find a way like the old centering of mid-page ads to differentiate videos from advertisements (and dont let those damn things play automatically…)
Make the titles links to the pictures and keep pictures as links to larger selves or something. Whatever you changed, it is really easy when scrolling on my trackpad to be accidentally redirected to just that image’s page and away from the site..

Keep the voting, though. Good on that. Needs to be rearranged, made more fun or something…remember cheezburgers? now it is just buttons. You had so many cute little icons that are now nonexistence.
When I click “Read More…” it also shouldn’t redirect or anything; just expand.
Sources or information (thinking specifically of video game site…) about the picture should also not be a click-through procedure. It’d help get users interested in alternate things.

I chose this site for its user-friendliness, aesthetic value and easy accessibility as opposed to Reddit, 4chan, etc. This is my meme-source. Maybe create an option of opt-out for members? I don’t mind change but this is not the change this site wants…or needs…or should have…

Let’s crunch some numbers here, ones that are very likely pertinent, although largely arbitrarily pulled out of where the sun don’t shine, prefacing it with this here:

Fun and Games that this may be, it’s STILL A BUSINESS.

If they get, say, only a mere 1000 page hits an hour per site, but only 230 or so complaints in a days time, then those numbers would tend to make it seem like the majority of people either don’t care enough to comment, or are just fine with the way things are.

Might not be reality, then again it might be, but in Business and in Government, most of the time you HAVE TO have MOST of the people in a state of open revolt before those in charge even begin to consider that they MIGHT have made a slight misjudgment.

This is why the news is filled with thing where companies are declaring rotten sales for years in a row but keep doing the same things unchanged, until it hurts the bottom line enough that management starts getting fired or the company goes under while the big bosses get bonuses out of the pension funds.

So, at this juncture, from a business standpoint, let me try to paint a little picture here.

On the issue of measuring site traffic, they may not have anything that tracks how many switch to the old site, I don’t know how that works, perhaps they can do it, much more likely it just how many hit the site PERIOD.

I also note ONLY TWO, myself and another commenter mentioned having switched bookmark URLs to the Beta Opt Out, old version.

I would suggest that, like many, either they don’t control such things, or just don’t care. If they can generate more hits with Facebook than actual site visits, or be among the first to redesign everything for some aspect of Mountain Lion or Internet Explorer 10/Windows 8, those thing all DO play into such decisions.

Again, NO sign of any user poll, NO comment that I saw AT ALL given about any future for the Opt Out version, which, frankly WOULD cost them money to maintain, so being as this is likely a move inspired by money and/or vanity rather than what any users might want, about the only thing that MIGHT change their minds IS a DRAMATIC decline in page visits and therefore revenue.

Just how much might 230 complaints figure into all of this, affect the overall bottom line?

Revenue that with my multiple opened tabbed browsing means a minimum of -19 page visits daily across the Cheezburger Network looms, but that’s Just Me.

So, now if you take into consideration that the 230 commenters, not all of them nay sayers, some of them admins, but I’ll just go ahead and use that as the number because I’m not anal retentive obsessive enough to count it all up, just for the purpose of discussion, let’s call those as being just the, what, 1:5 or 1:10 who WILL comment . . . so, conservatively figuring

230 pissed off people who will comment at 1/5 of pissed off people, so 1150 pissed off people, but, like in everything, what percentage actually WILL _DO_ something like go to other humor pages?

That’s the gamble isn’t it? I’ll just go with half of that for the sake of discussion.

Assuming there’s a loss of 575 people, doesn’t seem a lot right there, in fact from the made up numbers I’m using, just a tick over half an hour of page hits out of the whole entire dammed day, big whoop!

UNLESS they do like I personally do and visit nearly twenty Cheezburger Network affiliated sites a day, so, just to throw some numbers out there:

575 people times 5 sites = 2875 page hits lost,

575 people times 10 would be 5750,

and 575 people with WAY to much free time on their hands hitting 20 per day would be 11,500 …

ACROSS THE BOARD . . .

The board of 54 sites that would be . . .

Now Then

Taking my entirely fictitious and most probably LOW number of 24,000 page visits per site per day . . ?

I reload a single page across the cheezburger network at least 50 times. I open around 10 comment sections in the same time. So, I hit the site 500 times. And that’s in one session. When I come onto cheezburger the second time in that day, I do the same. Cheezburger will be losing my 30.000+ hits in a month. A lot of people do the same as I do. So, let’s say 10 people do the same as I do (and much more than just 10 do so), cheezburger is losing over 300.000+ hits per month. And sometimes I go onto cheezburger sites more often than other times, so the number varies by very much. This will cost cheezburger greatly, because as I noticed, a large number of users are planning on leaving if the comment sections (and other bits) are completely changed or “fixed“. It will make a difference for cheezburger.

Actually, they’re following the lead of who I (not so affectionately) refer to as Mark “Mr. Massengill” Zuckerberg…which is summed up in his Facebook philosophy of “move fast and break things”. Also, to dovetail into that, I must chime in and echo the sentiments of those who detest the Facebook integration here, specifically the commenting aspect. I pray that I NEVER have to use my real name and Facebook account to simply make a snarky comment here and there. I value my privacy, and don’t see where viewing some memes and lols should require me to divulge ANY personal info. I registered here with a gender non-specific username and a very innocuous avatar, so I could retain my anonymity. I think it’s ludicrous that in order to enjoy some laughs and contribute to a conversation that anyone should have to check in with their real identity. If that aspect ever goes through, I can see myself taking my traffic elsewhere. Perhaps Cheezburger (& Mr. Huh) should seriously reconsider sacrificing those users who have through their visits, word of mouth, and dedication helped BUILD this site into what it is, in favor of some hypothetical traffic or revenue they MIGHT get from a site revamp. That’s just it, nothing shows they’ll actually reap any real benefit from changing things up, and from all the negative comments I see, rather, they’ll shoot themselves in the foot and alienate those who contribute, visit, and shape this site. However, they didn’t listen when folks outcried against the Collectibles program ending, so I am not optimistic about this change being reversed, either. It’s been a good run, Cheezburger, but if you fail to address and acknowledge, and, most importantly, ACT upon the suggestions of the users whose backs upon which this site were built, you may be left wringing your hands when site traffic dwindles to a crawl and nobody wants to play with you anymore. Play nice with us, and we’ll respond in like fashion. Good day.

Have you ever had a vote for your users? These “improvements” of yours are what’s causing you to go downhill. Users are asking you, politely for many, to scrap the beta because it looks horrible. Remember that the users’ opinion should also be in play when you are planning something. It’s just like “the customer is always right.” I’d bet a million (currency) that you’re going to ignore or, best case, respond a statement that is totally erratic.

I hope that you’ll actually take time to read and respond to your users STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. It’s annoying to have people answer indirectly, a fortiori people ignoring them.

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PUUUUUUUUUKE, UPCHUCK, BARF, VOMIT, SPEW, FLASH, PAY HOMAGE TO THE PORCELAIN THRONE, SHORT OF COVERING THEM IN PUKE AT CLOSE RANGE TO REALLY REALLY GET THEIR ATTENTION “NOTHING YOU DO WILL STOP GREED”, THEY SEEM TO BE TRANSFIXED WITH IT, HELPLESS BEFORE IT, DESTINED TO RUSH RIGHT INTO IT THEREBY SCATTERING OUR COMMENTS TO THE WIND, NODDING WISELY AT A PARTICULARLY SAGE ONE BUT IGNORING ALL ELSE.
“GREED” HAS THEM BY THE SHORT HAIRS & THEY LOVE IT!!

I feel I should say this, both as a part-time web designer, and a frequent Memebase visitor: based on the “see the new ICHC” view, the new site will be a feat of bad web design. It’s probably too late to change this now, but I urge you to leave the big, nice, banners on top of each page. They’re what defines the personality, if you will, of each Cheezburger page.
Moreover, aesthetically, there’s just too much white space, especially if you’re using a screen over 24 inches. Consider using CSS media queries to use that space to add more content. You’ve no doubt got a ton of web space (at least, you could probably afford a ton, based on the amount of ads you display nowadays); why not use it to store higher-res images, where applicable, for wider screens? Alternatively, you could use the space to, for example, add an official Twitter feed for each of the pages. A cool thing I found out while developing one website, was that a landscape-oriented Twitter feed looks just awesome. At 960px wide, Tweets are easier to read than on Twitter’s constricted, narrow, column.

Let’s look at things a little objectively… Facebook rolls out a new layout. People are vocal about hating it. /Really/ vocal. To the point where you only hear negative or indifference. But ultimately there isn’t a viable alternative… Go back to myspace? heck no. Google+? Closer, but no cigar. So people put up with the crap facebook shoves down their throats.

Cheezburger, on the other hand – Rolling out new layout? Check. Vocal people hate it (or are indifferent, to the point where they would say “whatever” if you threatened them with a hot poker)? Check. No viable alternative? … … huh, can’t check off that one.

Anyone else ever noted that many submissions on the various Falblog portions of the site had comments to the tune of “reposted from 9gag” (or some other site)? Sites that don’t plaster their header/footer on uploaded images, obscuring parts of the funny?

Cheezburger, I applaud the many sections of your network providing the niches that have helped shape your community into a giant among it’s peers. They are wonderful. But your new layout is clunky slow, and does little to actually improve on anything. Making it seem like an unnecessary, largely unwanted, change for the sake of change. Please be aware that you are not without peers and that the services you provide can be found elsewhere.

I hope many other displeased users will follow me in finding these elsewheres, wherever they may be when this beta is inevitably pushed to live. While a little less sophisticated, there are several imageboards that fill the same roll that cheezburger does (funny is uploaded, and commented on).

The improvement format is not an improvement. I don’t like it and probably won’t be looking at the site much any more. I like the writing and links below the video or photo. Having to click “show more” to read the rest of it is weird and awkward. Having less items per page is annoying and unnecessary.

Well, I won’t be back. The new platform sucks and I’ve been opting out of it since it began popping up. It’s too bad twitter and facebook are being forced on the people who may want to comment. Believe it or not, there are people out there who do not use twitter or facebook and who actually find them utterly useless. I’m one of them. It also sounds like I’m not the only one who hates the new platform. You really screwed the pooch on this one.

I agree with this one totoally! I do NOT use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or any other social network aid because I feel I have 1) too much of my information out there already, and 2) flat do not want to deal with all of the crap that comes with being on such sites. Yes, I know that employers now use these things to check on prospective employees, but as far as I’m concerned, you’re in the business to sell a product. What the hell people do on their own time, foolish or not, should have ABSOLUTELY no bearing on how they do their job unless they screw up on the job

I liked the old Cheezburger site because I could comment without being a member, because I don’t want to be a member. Yet. Now it’s very doubtful I will decide to do so. And because I use an ad-blocker, there’s no money being made off of me anyways.

You have lost me as a customer. I think the new system sucks. Each email I have been sent had space to comment for facebook but nothing else. I do not do facebook. Total waste of time. The videos have gone way downhill. Just goes to show you that just because things “progress” does not mean they are better. Obviously, the owners do not care about the people’s comments. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I am sorry to see it ruined.
GOODBYE!!

I think your redesign is just find. Yes it will take some time and poking around to find where things are (it took me a few days to discover the links at the top to all the sites in the network) but its good.
Dont listen to the haters. People just dont like changing. I WILL keep coming back and visiting a whole bunch of the sites because nothing else is as funny!!

I’m going to repost one of my replies from earlier, since I’m admittedly too lazy to re-type it:

I believe the problem here isn’t “It’s change, therefore it’s bad”. Had you actually -read- some of the comments, like my previous one, my issue is that the new sites CRASH my browser, on two completely separate computers, on two completely separate networks. If it weren’t doing that, I suppose I could get over the flat white color of the pages violating my eyes, with or without glasses, or some of the more counter-intuitive features.

Several other comments also mention technical problems that appear to be site-based, not computer based. So I suppose we’re just supposed to suck it up and ‘like’ something that seems broken, simply because we ‘have’ to?

I’ve been a part of the cheezburger community without actually making a cheezburger account for around 4 or 5 years already. 5 years I’ve spent on this website, laughing at the comics, laughing at how lonely forever alone is etc. And then, a year ago, you brought a decision to change everything. From the lovely, user friendly, computer friendly, internet-speed friendly old cheezburger we have arrived to this layout that reminds me too much of other, mainstream, horrible LOL sites out there, such as 9gag and other sites.

Why have you even come to this decision, to completely r@pe the look of the website I used to love so much? I do not mind you changing the look of the site a little, or adding facebook and twitter buttons in the comments section (without it interfering with our own memebase community, mind you) , but why have you changed it to such an extreme, where I can no longer even use my wordpress account?

Most the users go to the cheezburger websites because it’s like our own family. The bronies enjoy their fanbase, we enjoy our little family all revolving around Uvula and Scarlett, and we’re all happy. Now, you are killing off this family of ours, this wonderful place of retreat we had during the last 5 years. You are commencing a full-on virtual genocide, killing of hundreds, probably thousands of people who visit the site for 1 reason alone- the comments.
Imagine 4chan changed it’s rules, and said “No abusive language or scenic photography allowed”. That would not be 4chan. That would be something entirely different.

Please, cheezburger staff, if anything, at least give us an option to still use the old commenting system. If this is not done, I’m afraid you’re going to lose a very large number of users. This is a bad move, cheezburger.

Well, I see that all my complaints with the new format are registered over and over again above here. I will not be using the (not so) “Improved” Cheezburger sites. I used to be able to easily and quickly email lol’s to friends. Then you made that a multi step process. Now, the horrendously eye painful site? Really? You are going the way of Facebook. I will not be back.

Please listen to us D: I will return… To protest until we get it back. 2012 sucks and you guys are just adding to the damage. You have to listen to us or you will loose people I want to use wordpress. And I think I speak for every one when I say my name and avatar is awesome 🙂 Just be glad I’m not yelling and cursing at you guys but listen to us and nothing wrong will happen, Humanity will be saved.

Damn You! I tried Cheezburger Beta for about a week to try and get used to it. I then quickly realized, that you don’t get used to it. The site works fine as it is. If you want some good advice? Only change your format if the rest of the users want you to. Which we don’t. So take a hint.

Honestly, I don’t like the new layout. It’s formatted extremely weird, and I have a slow network, so the infinite scroll doesn’t sound good at all. As for comments, I am utterly disappointed with them. I want to be able to comment with wordpress, and the new system has no option for that. As for Facebook and twitter, I don’t like how it is forced on you, it’s somewhat aggravating. I really do hope there will be a way to use the old version of the site over the new one.

It’s awful. Change it. Everyone here is saying it. But it’s only just now that I realized I could still opt out and go back to the older better version. I thought I’d already lost that ability. Let me just say, that the second I saw the new layout change back to the old one, I let out an automatic, visceral sigh of relief. Please, please don’t run me off of this site. Move the titles back, fix the damn comments section, and put the bank of site back down at the bottom of the page.

I am done. I don’t post a lot, but I USED to check the site every day. The new site sucks. PERIOD. I don’t want twitter crap because twitter is quite possibly the stupidest thing EVER. I have a facebook, but I don’t use it for sites like this.

I like cats, I like pictures of cats, there are other sites where I can see pictures of cats. Goodbye.

Most of the responses I’ve seen regarding the beta have been negative. A large majority opposes the change to the new layout. And with good reasons too. The old one was brilliant. Each site had a unique feel towards it and it made for a pleasant browsing experience. I cannot say the same with the beta layout. It looks too much like 9gag. The one-of-the-kind feel that the old layout gave out is not present with the new one.

I get that the changes are imminent. But just like most of the Cheezburger users, we would like the option to remain on the old layout. It isn’t too much of a request, is it?

Please,please,please. Please, don’t do this. I don’t know how to convince you not to do this. Can’t you tell everyone hates it? Why?? This isn’t a good idea. Please,listen to us. We hate it! Hate,hate,hate it! You’re digging your own grave here. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

I don’t think you’re actually listening. I read a bunch of comments and pretty much all of them were negative. You’re going to lose a lot of you’re audience. If you don’t give access to the old format I’ll just go on 4Chan more.

Sorry. I just can’t stand the new layout. It’s unintuitive, slow, and difficult to navigate. I can’t read the comments, and I’m not going to punch holes in my security to do so. I hope you decide to scrap this ‘new’ layout, everyone hates it.

Shame on you cheez, you’ve pulled a facebook and forced everyone to use a format that they do not like. For whatever reason, people have massively voiced they criticism for the new layout you would do well to listen.

Why, everytime facebook updates, a fair number of submissions on this very network balk at how facebook persists in the update despite the overwhelming majority of feedback being negative.

Ohai Big Cheezes:
“Specific feedback on the new “RAGE” style of smilies:”

I bumped into someone testing in the Beta comments way back and he advised me of “67 macros” he had written to produce postage-stamp sized thumbnails in the text if we care to type a matching code.

Although I had to admire the animated Dolan Duck, using the code :taunt: (colon, taunt, colon), the simple and tiny emoticons available in wordpress and elsewhere for 😆 (colon, lol, colon) and 🙁 (colon, sad, colon) are now oversized & very ugly rage-face thumbnails in Beta cheezburger comments.

Not only ugly, but they mess up a simple post of a silly rhyme.

Please see this link to an example Beta lol,
look at my comments and you will see exactly what I mean.

Hai PB. I’ll forward this along and see if there is anything that can be done. Just as a headsup, we’re working on ICHC emoticons and other emoticons for the other sites, so look out for those in the near future. Thx!

PLEASE don’t force us all to use the new format. It literally freezes my computer EVERY SINGLE TIME I open it, and have to wait a few minutes to go back to the old format.

The least you could do is not make it 91732483263 posts per page. I haven’t been keeping up with the beta, but I won’t even be ABLE to come back to this site if it freezes my computer each time I go to a new page.

No sites like this realise that changing things that aren’t broken does nothing but annoy people? What motivation do you have for making changes? None. Just like the Facebook timeline. I’d love to sit in on the boardroom meetings about these changes just to listen to the ignorance and insolence involved.
The biggest thing I hated about the beta was the linking to facebook etc. I have no interest in my real life “friends” seeing what I’m doing on the internet.

The ‘new’ format is so unuser-friendly. There has got to be a way to save the existing format somehow or let people opt out as before. I liked everything the way it was, the new layout has less information and is impossible to enjoy/post comments because you can’t tell where to post. I will never be on facebook or twitter or those others. If ICHC has to change so drastically to remain viable, I’ll just stop coming here. Sorry to all my cheesefriends.

New/beta site is slow to load and pulls scripts from multiple different domains (which looks like cross-site scripting hacks). Design does not play well with mobile or touch screen devices. Finding other parts of the site is difficult and not obvious. Visually the site is bland and the comments are confusing with FB getting priority.

So tell me again why the beta is going live and not being pulled and fixed.

I think it’s funny that the banner to this blog post on Failblog sites says “All aboard the Failboat” — the banner has a foundering ship in it. They say rats leave a sinking ship, and I will leave Cheezburger sites, too, when the beta (more like pre-proto-alpha) becomes the only interface.

“Try the new Cheezburger” banner had a shark chasing someone on Failblog. Perhaps it implied that Cheezburger had jumped the shark.

I’ve read all of these comments and WAY more than half of your fans don’t want to switch over to the BETA version. I, for one, HATE the BETA version and I always opt out. Maybe a vote should’ve gone out first. Let’s hope there’s an option to opt out, because is not, I won’t be visiting Cheezburger much anymore…

I don’t get this… the great majority of the comments on here are against the changes. We are the people you’re trying to convince to come back to your site time and time again, yet you are ignoring our complaints… the fact of the matter is, most of us completely HATE your new site! It sucks. We don’t like it. Why do you insist on making the change? You’re basically telling us that you’ll decide what we like. It doesn’t work that way, people. It looks to me like you’re going to lose a lot of traffic to this change (no doubt made because somebody with a fancy degree of some kind said it was a good idea), and I am going to be one of those who never come to your sites again. How dare you tell me what I should want as a patron of your sites. If it wasn’t for me and all your other viewers, your site would be nothing. Way to spit in our faces.

Now that it’s far, far too late, I finally find the feedback area. It was hidden much better this time than the last time you folks changed some stuff around. Kudos, Cheeseburger. With just a little bit more practice, you’ll be able to stop pretending you care for feedback at all.

Why I thought new Cheezeburger would be a good thing:

FOREVER SCROLL! 🙂 The first few days of forever scroll, when everything was on one single endless page, I was overjoyed. I thought “this is the way Cheezeburger– and pretty much every freakin’ one-trick pony site on the net ought to be: click in and just start browsing till you’re sick of it. AWESOME!”

Then forever scroll went away, it was right back to the endless loading to view five on a page (who was the pervert who arrived at that magical number, anyway?), two or three of which were invariably adds, and one more would be a repost. No biggie. I guess I can always click up the next page, wait for your adds to load so that the images finally come up, find the one on that page that isn’t a repost, an add, or the last one from the page before or the first one on the page after (Yeah; nothing like all that waiting only to find out that the page you just loaded could have been completely _eliminated_ from your rotation, and you’ll never get that load time back).

Forever scroll was awesome! It was the only reason I kept coming back for more Beta. But in just a few days, forever scroll was gone. I kept coming back, but it never did.

So now we have Old Cheezeburger, only it’s white now. I know: you’re going to keep calling it exciting new changes. Let me take a moment to explain why no one else sees it that way:

It’s just like old Cheezeburger, only it’s white now.

yeah. That’s not exciting, Dude. It’s just white.

Oh, and of course, there are all those endless “tweeted” tags in the comments (today was the last straw for me: not opening comments ever again. Too much time for your adds to load just to find that there is NO CONVERSATION going on in there, just eighty six “SRNKX! Retweet” And “HA! FACEBOOKIFIED”

WHO GIVES A RED ROLLY CRAP?

And those few valiant souls who _do_ try to comment? Not worth weeding through all that retweet crap to follow the conversation.

Why are we supposed to care that some self-important nine-year-old from across the continent retweeted some crap? That’s pretty much what this stuff is here for: anything resembling a viral blitz is going to make you money. We all know that there are like, more than twelve people who look at this site.

I can only assume that you folks get some sort of bounty for that irritating crap: ten cents every thousand “retweeted” link or something? Nine cents for every million facebook posts?

Get that crap out of here. We’ve already seen the source; why in the name of anything reasonable would we want to see a backtrack to some obscure tangent (where tangent means ‘douchebag with a twitter account’ just so we can follow it back in?

And the same with the facebook nonsense: We are not on facebook; we are on cheezeburger. And guess what, cheezburger? If we wanted to be on facebook, WE WOULD FLIPPIN’ WELL BE ON FACEBOOK AND NOT HERE FIGHTING THROUGH ALL THE CRAP YOU’VE JUNKED UP YOUR OWN HOUSE WITH! Though honestly, I would have thought that your lost market share back in the initial days of the facebook explosion would have made that rather obvious to you: facebookers will happily ignore you to get their fix. You can’t throw a bunch of facebook comments here and expect it to be the same. You’re not providing a facebook experience; just a facebook comments section. How sad and pitiful.

if you want to make “major and wonderful changes”, then by all means: bring back forever scroll, and you can keep urinating all over us in the comments section, because large numbers of us are never going to go in there again. There’s just no reason to. I’m sorry if it hurts your advertising revenue, but frankly, doing stupid things _should_ hurt; there would be far fewer of them if they did.

If you’re just going to continue to wreck what little pleasure there is left in coming to your site so you can get a few more add bucks out of it it before you have to admit what’s become of the place the past few years—

then at least have the basic human decency to stop calling it “improvements.” So far, you’re “improvements” over the old version have been along the lines of the way that steel wool is an “improvement” over toilet paper.

I personally think that the new layout is too sterile looking, it’s very featureless and lacks character. I very surprised that cheezburger is going through with this since there is so much hate for the new layout.

Oh, but there is comments on beta! It is a very tiny word balloon just to the right of the middle of the lol with a number (“0” if there are no comments) next to it. It is too small to really tell what it is and it doesn’t convey that it will take you to the comments unless you put your pointer on it. It is like an annoying Easter egg hunt! Same thing with the options to re-caption, see the other captions made using the same picture, as well as the lists for other cheezsites. Pop-ups and drop-downs…urgh! Just have it where I can see it.

Dudecats: even the old style ads were more entertaining to look at, they filled that big, empty sterile space. Why are you trying to drive people away? Is this like when Bruce Wayne insulted all his guests so they would leave before the fire? Is the interwebs crashing down around your Cheezears? And you just want to spare us the pain and suffering you know is nigh? OR do you just not give durn that your awful new format is nothing but an attempt to look corporate and professional, but instead sucks all the life out of my previously favorite web site.

Sorry, I’m with the do not like group. The beta is so slow to load that I’ve been clicking back to the old format every time it has come up. I let it load today, but it still takes a lot longer than the old way (using a laptop with a pretty good speed processor, not a mobile app). I also dislike the titles on the right, the lack of an obvious way to save to my favorites, etc.

I used to visit ICHC every day, but since you eliminated collectibles I’ve rarely visited more than once or twice a week. On the positive side of the collectibles issue, I no longer waste time visiting sites I dislike just to get the collectibles (ok, so I’m a bit ocd). I have very little interest in the “community” aspect, which is also one reason I avoid Facebook like the plague it is. Don’t much care about the commenting issues, since the only time I use it is to vote most weeks for the Daily Squee. If that becomes harder, I will likely not bother – and have even less reason to visit regularly.

If you want suggestions, one that would help me would be the option to accumulate my preferred sites under a tab in my profile – I like ICHC, Lolcats, Daily Squee, Lovely Listings and Engrish Funny, myself. And stop adding “features” that mean additional loading time.

I don’t really have much to say other than that I hate the new comments system and I’m unlikely to use it once I’m forced to use the new layout.

You required people to use their Facebook (or similar) account to post which a lot of people said they didn’t like. I guess you listened in the sense that you added a separate comments system that allowed a pseudo-name; but having two separate commenting system is just ugly, not to mention that if you see something in the Facebook comments then you can’t reply to it because you have to use a separate system.

I think it’s really funny that people are threatening to “leave” the site over the UI changes, as if that’s some sort of credible threat. Cheezburger has thousands and thousands of hits, I’m pretty sure they’re not concerned about the small percentage of users who can’t handle a site update.

Get used to it folks, it’s the internet. Things don’t stay the same, it’s the nature of the beast.

It’s not just a few old timers grumbling about change being necessarily bad. I can deal with change. When failblog.org was remade as a salad of all the failblog websites, I’ve dealt with it by not visiting failblog.org anymore, went to Fail Nation instead.
Yes, the new design is different from the old one, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be bad by its own merit. If you visit Web developer forums, you’ll see plenty of debates revolving around design trends that this beta seems to follow: JavaScript everywhere, on-demand content loading, Facebook integration, and generic website bloating. A lot of people think that this is a bad direction to go generally. I’ve also had plenty of technical trouble with using the site (especially from mobile devices), which tells me that this beta is nowhere as ready to go live as its developers seem to think.

I’ll be honest, I’m not going to leave. I’m going to carry on looking at funny pictures.

But I’m probably going to stop using the comments because I really can’t be bothered to deal with the horrible UI. Maybe Cheezburger will like people to stop commenting to save on paying someone to moderate the comments.

Well, from all the comments I scanned, it’s become clear that my time (3 years? 4? It’s all gone by so fast…) with cheezburger has probably come to an end. I typically spend about 2 hours each day looking at sites on the network (looking, commenting, reading other people’s comments, laughing, etc.). If I can no longer opt out of the Beta version, and will be forced against my will to use only the veeerry slow (I got a Mac), very inconvenient, and very non-user-friendly (again, I got a Mac – I expect user-friendly) new cheesy cheezburger, then I only have one question:
Can any other soon-to-be former users recommend alternate sites to visit instead?

Agreed with the 95% of commenters here, the new layout is bad and you should feel bad. It’s a JavaScript nightmare that lags out older PCs and is a huge bandwidth hog. It is the reason I rarely check out the site from my smartphone anymore. Forget about the comments, viewing the content is such a hassle that it’s just ain’t worth it. If the new design becomes permanent, I’m definitely leaving.

What bugs me the most is that I tune in to I Can Has Cheezburger to see CATS! ONLY cats! Dogs belong on I Has a Hotdog. Other Aimals belong on other sites! I can only afford dial-up, and it takes Forever to load a page (if it loads completely at all!) and when I get one, maybe two cat pictures a page, it’s not worth it! Go back to your ALL CATS format!!!

Also, I can’t always find the “Add to favorites” link, and how do I find the caprions other people have given a picture? PLEASE go back to your orrigiinal format!!!!

Hi there Karen. Lolcats have their very own site: http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/lolcats. You can also access this site, as well as all of our sites, by hovering your mouse on the top navigation bar. You will see tabs for our clusters of content titled: “I Can Has”, “Fail Blog”, “Memebase”, “TDW”, “KYM”, and “Moar”. When you hover your mouse over each tab, a drop down menu will appear displaying all of the sub-sites for each cluster. To add content to your favorites, just click on the “Post to…” button next to the image. You can select your favorites from there.

Which tablet are you using? When you tap your finger on each tab, the menu will drop down. Then you tap your finger on the sub-site you would like to navigate to. This is how it is designed for all mobile devices.

What happened to the option to email individual lol’s? I really like this feature and want it back! Not everyone wants to re-post and spam their fb or just share content with every other website. That just leads to everything being homogenous and boring.

The old look was so much better. Every time I logged on to Cheezburger I opted out of Beta…
You’re not listening to me; and you’re not going to listen to me, or any other of the ‘cheezpeeps’ here.. but dear god. If you have to make your changes to this site, at least keep the ‘opt out’ button that is there during beta testing.

The new design is slower on my laptop, this site and ONLY this site crashes when I go onto the new design. And everything else you’ve lumped into this package of yuck is just as bad.. infinite scrolling was a big no no for my laptop too, and I really don’t get the deal with the titles being on the side of the lols.

I don’t suppose you’re going to listen to me, or any of the other cheezpeeps here, I suppose you just care about yourselves and the money. That’s why you have more, ad riddled pages with less content on them, right? 😉

So ah yeah, I agree with a majority of people here. Your beta is bad and you should feel bad.

Here are a few facts you all seem to want to ignore. Fact #1 – not everyone is on Facebook. In fact a fair number of us DO NOT WISH TO LIVE SOCIAL, so stop with the Facebook crap. Fact#2 – you have long time viewers like me who do not understand why you want to screw up a good thing. Why?Bored? Tough! Fact #3 – your new layout is NOT better. it SUCKS.
SUCKS BIG TIME. Fact#4 – we want a site to scroll thru and laught NOT AN AD MARKET. Fact #5 – your color choices suck. Aqua is not an easy color to view or read words on. Fact#6 – you are pissy off a large segment of your viewers. Assume, like politicials, that for every comment you get there are 10 – 20 who agree but won’t take the time to comment. Think about it. Really.

I’ll have to move to a different site – the new style is just about impossible to view on my netbook. It runs terribly slow, is hard to view without a stupid horizontal scroll, and causes my everything to freeze up pretty regularly.

Aside from that, I find the new format uncomfortable to read – I gave it a chance, but it really just frustrates me. I have to zigzag to read, the content kind of jumps as I try to work through the scrolling…. Well, pretty much, it’s all been said. I hope you really will listen to what people are saying, but so far, I’ve seen little to convince me you’re listening.

At least there’s no infinite scrolling (for me) but that won’t save it. Since I usually end up at the bottom of the page, I am disappointed the links to all the websites in the network aren’t there. It would’ve been great to see that as a legacy feature which admittedly is better than the expanded share buttons or the fact that there is a like/dislike button above the title. It looks like you’ve tried to emulate 9GAG but shockingly failed. I’ve seen it and it is more pleasing (layoutwise) than this. This needs to be optimised with less unnecessary gaps, empty spaces or emphasis on features that don’t need to be.

Have you not even noticed that absolutely no one has made any comments today since the beta site went up? If I didn’t know there were comments to be found I would assume that all you do is look at the pictures and walk away.

I gave up making LOL’s a while back because nothing I ever posts even gets to the voting pages so it’s not like I have any chance at a front page and the front pages I have seen recently haven’t been very funny except for a few.

It is very sad to see everyone so upset that they would leave the site. I know changes must be made to keep the site current but, I really think that maybe they went too far this time. I don’t know what will happen…thankfully I found other places to be with the friends I made here. Hope someday it can be fun here again…..

I used the LOL Cats “Vote on new LOLs” but I used to use the recaption function many, many times during the day. Now I can’t even find out how to do it. How do you recaption something? There are so few pictures to recaption as well. Many times in recent months I was directed to the New Cheeseburger and went back to the old format. You are making this so hard, very user unfriendly and for your information and your advertisers I no longer get ads in your new format. That should interest you.

Hi Morningstarworks – If you click on the image or the title of the post you want to recaption, it will take you to the single post page. If you hover your mouse on the image, you’ll see the recaption buttons pop up. Thanks! Emily

I may not have been a frequent commenter but I have been visiting the site fairly regularly for years now. (Most of the time several times per day)
However this new layout is just not working out, it’s slow and horribly designed and generally worse than the previous one.
Granted the old comment system was pretty crap too but at least the layout was decent.

Anyway, bottom line is I will not be coming here anymore (except maybe once in a while to see if you came to your senses). Congratulations on ruining your site, hope you can adapt faster than digg.

it doesn’t matter what we say. the loyal readers and commenters and the communities that have grown up around the cheezburger sites don’t matter. they don’t need us. all they need are enough page views to bring in the big advertising buck$.

Seems to be what they are telling us by their actions. I am all for new & improved – IMPROVED, not just new. I hate to be such a hater, a downer and a naysayer, but why are the Head Honchos Here just ignoring the majority of dislike comments when they are their customer base? DO you know of any other sites like cheeseburger? I loved Lovely Listings, and they are killing it on the 24th. I don’t just want stupid content, I want interesting content!!

Downgrading the ability to navigate within each individual catagory Lolcats, hotdogs… removing page numbers from With the previous next arrows is a concrete example of the things that have changed for the worse, and why you Should feel bad. I really do not want to start at the beginning Every time, and work my way slow page by page. Yeah, I know I can type it in the adress bar, but , I just find it easier to use a built in function which has been removed for no concievable reason. It is simply a decrease in functionality, which I can imagine no good reason for.

Read the whole thing.
As a senior programmer, I am all up for change. Change fixes problems, change speeds things up. However, when change is done just for the sake of making things look different, you alienate your users.

On the ‘new cheezburger’.
It sucks, what can I say. It is slow, buggy and lacks in creativity of any type. NOTHING is being fixed here, you just are trying to fit into the Facebook/Youtube fad. I put my two cents in for several websites (usually you need to pay for this) and they still changed. If you want to see what is going to happen, take a look over at Digg. Hell, lets bring up MySpace while we are at it.

I highly suggest dropping in an option located in the user’s profile providing the ability to switch back. Personally, if you decide this is a bad idea. I am going to block this site from my computer and the company network. Reddit tried this crap, took them a week to change back.

You spent allot of money and time coming up with this new theme. The ‘polling’ you did has two major flaws.

– You did NOT take into account those who do not want it changed.
– If everyone decided to put their favorite flavor into a cookie, that cookie would taste like crap.

I am giving you GOOD advice here. Put a poll up on the main page that does not require registering to use. Ask, “Which layout is better?”. I think you will be both surprised at the results and happy that you saved so much money by avoiding a massive user-base loss.

As web designer, I wholly agree with what you are saying. Design should compliment or improve the user’s experience, not kill it.

For what it’s worth, the ‘New & Improved’ ICanHasCheezeber site came live today without the opt-out option (for me, anyway). The PTB do have a page explaining the changes with the new Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down voting system, so it’s, in a way, a simple poll on people’s opinions. So far, it’s 7,719 against/201 pro. If anyone want’s to vote on it, the direct link is here:

Dammit, Cheezburger, you claim the old style non-facebook commenting is still available for people who hate using facebook, but then it doesn’t work. Look at the comments here. Everybody hates the new look. If you pull a Facebook and leave it like this when everybody hates it (see: every time Facebook changes) then I hope everybody leaves this site in favor of every other freakin’ meme site.

when I am down and need a laugh this is the ONLY place I go to, archives and all, but lately all these changes and NOT for the good!!…..Betz, smeata!!…..yuk……give us back the old Cheezburger with all the LOL sites and laughs…..this is so boring now and archives??? Why on earth are you changing something that didn’t need fixing????????????????? Makes no sense….those of us that love this site weren’t asked for changes, and didn’t request them, so who did, some mucky muck that just cares about the looks of a website? What about your readers? I thought we counted, guess I was wrong, and I am not a kid, I am a 65 year old lady that loves dogs and animals and lives for this site, you have made it unbecoming and hard to use……boring colors and things that I could care less about, why couldn’t you give us the choice of old or new like you were doing? This is horrible now…….so sad to see something ruined………:((

Emily, two related questions (and I’m sorry if these were answered already; I only just found this announcement and haven’t read all 300+ postings).
1. Will we be able to still see the old LOLs (I’m a Lolcat person and there are some I want to locate and save before they are gone forever).
2. If the old LOLs will still exist, will the search engine, when it’s developed, enable us to locate a LOL with a search word? (Example: Smudgie).
Thank you so much. I admit that I, also, am not a fan of the new site and probably won’t be visiting as often if it’s too frustrating. I accidentally used Facebook once to reply to a Lol and was shocked when it appeared on my Facebook Wall. Not because anything was wrong with my comment, but because I could picture making a mess of my Wall if forced to use Facebook to comment.
Take care, Jeannie

Hi Jeannie- You’ll still be able to see the old LOLs for a short period of time, but at some point, the old LOLs will redirect to that same LOL on our new platform. There might be some really old ones that won’t get transferred over, but we are transfering over as much as we can, so I’d recommend saving any LOLs you’d like just in case. We are tweaking our Search feature and it should allow you to locate a LOL with a search word. Hope that helps! Thanks! Emily

They went to the new site, then after about 20 mins of me searching around on other sites and making demotivationals about it being bad, it went back to the old site, with no option to find the new one… haha

This is just painful. The site is slow, the format isn’t very intuitive and it just feels clunky. The only reason I created an account was to complain; doubt if I’ll ever come back. Also, whomever you “focus grouped” this mess with, either didn’t have a clue or they were “yes” people. Also, I find it highly ironic, the site that originally put you on my map (failblog) allows you to log in to this site using the user credentials of the very product you were originally mocking.

Thanks for the laughs, it was very entertaining and fun while it lasted.

For any BIG CHEESES, Ohai and thanks for removing tweets from comments.

It is easy enough to make a comment here (although the dialog box doesn’t stretch)
but it is very hard to keep an upside-down conversation going.
ie reverse chronologicaly ordered comments.
I know this is an option in the scripting from Echo but we don’t look at only the latest comments, as if to check the status, or the like. A conversation is done in forward chronological order, as easy as that.
(Just a bit more feedback from me -PB)

And I can see from all the comments here that ya’ll didn’t learn a thing from Digg’s recent, massive fail. You may want to actually listen and RESPOND to people. Just listening doesn’t work. You have to actually act on it in a way that makes them less pissed off.

And fire whoever designed a site in 2012 that doesn’t work on mobile browsers.

The new version is extremely slow. Also, I don’t see the embed copy and paste thing. Has that gone away for good? If yes, that’s very disappointing. I don’t know if I will bother to visit anymore if I can’t share the way I want to.

I use original ‘green’ Memembase.com mostly on my phone and i have to say all the versions of cheezburger and other mobile conversions are very slow and jerky ,and may cause a few browser crashes every now and then. The best and most light and easy to use site for mobile i have used is the original ‘old syle’ memebase.I check on my coffee breaks for featureds and it works like a charm. It would be a shame if all that would come to and end.
I did also realise that there was an attempt to block mobiles from getting to the original memebase site and to be redirected to a cheezburger one. i had to use /noredirec first ,then install a browser with browser identification change to let me view the original site i want to use.
So why is it that you insist on somethin that only looks flashy but doesnt work as well ?

I really don’t like this new format at all. There are no titles on any of the memes, and that takes away from the hilarity of the pics. Part of the fun is being able to understand the sense of humor of the person who uploaded it. Also, it seems to me that there are fewer pics on each page and most of my time is spent waiting for them to load rather than actually viewing them.

This new format sucks. Bring back the old one. It wasn’t broken. I could email my friends lolcats on it. I can’t email them on this one. It’s a PITA to have to wait for so many pages to load. The old format let me see many images on one page. This one it’s like what 5 images then time to load another page. Lame.

Before you leave Memebase forever, have this link. It’s the only way to return to the previous version of Memebase now. Add the second part of this to ANY Cheezburger site you plan on visiting and you will be sent to the previous version.

I don’t know for how long this link will work. Beta is already permanent, so, of course, staff is going to remove any links back to the old site. This is all I can give you for now.

I’m fine with the beta change but PLEASE change the favicons so they don’t all default to the regular cheezburger one. A lot of people use just the favicons as buttons on their bookmark bars and it makes it a lot easier if each different cheezburger site has its own unique favicon. That’s the only reason I didn’t keep the beta on permanently while browsing.

I subscribed to the old ICHCB in a reader. My inability to do that with the new one means I won’t be entertained by the LOLcats until that changes. I never visited the site except to flip through the photos, and as it now seems as if that has been made unholy complicated, I won’t be back. Advertising revenue lost, guys.

I second what everyone else has said. I like to view cheezburger on my iPad and the new infinite scroll feature makes it impossible to get past a certain point, which isn’t good for me, and it means I can’t read as much on your sites. You have also taken out features in favour of making in look better, but it doesn’t look better with the titles on the right and a horrible colour scheme.

Please stop pretending to listen to feedback and actually take notice of what the vast majority of your readers (who generate your money) think – if you are going to keep the god-awful new design, which resembles 9gag but recreated by a bunch of preschoolers, at least give us the option to view the sites in the old layout.

You are reading the comments here are and on the HUGS? page yes? Hope you notice the huge number of negative comments and dislikes and some of the posters very constructive comments amongst the general chatter!

I have been trying to avoid the Beta for some time now. I am ususally at work when I need my fix of Memes and the old site ran perfectly, but this new one just appears to me that only the plain HTML made it to me since there is no Formatting, Pictures, or Scripts. Which is a completely unusable site. I am very sad that after years of reading i will no longer be able to even view the site. I hope you build a site in the future that can run on content limited networks like the old one could.

So many other fun, edgy catagories – I wish you had left our original Cheeziepeeps page alone. It’s a shame that the technology was too difficult to retain the look and feel on the Original Cheezburger page at least. Must say that I’ve been coming less and less the last few months. Not only are the comments getting less ‘community’ minded, the submissions are also getting less funny. I’ve made purchases from advertisers in the past – but if I’m not visiting – also not shopping. But I totally understand that gaining a larger percentage of market is more important than anything else. Doesn’t mean I find the transformation into a “house of ill repute” entertaining.

Add me to the list of people peeved with the changes. Why is there no search? The new site does not work properly on my tablet or phone (the menus don’t work so I have had to Google my favorite sites and put them in bookmarks – so much easier when they were all visible at the botton of the page). The new layout sucks – I have to have everything zoomed out to the point I cannot read the text or I have to scroll across. The whole thing takes ages to load then I only get what (i think ) 8 pics and have to do it all again. Really frustraiting because I used to love this place.I really don’t understand what was so wrong with the old format ( you know the one that worked)

I’m relieved to see others find the text placed to the right of the vid/image horrible. I thought it was maybe just me. This is a design flaw forcing too much horizontal eye movement. Text should be directly below (or perhaps above) the graphic it is referencing.

I’m not an active member of your community here, just an occasional failblog reader, so maybe I don’t have standing to gripe like some of these folks. But I’ll gripe anyway. It’s been awhile since I visited the site. I hit it today and WOW, WTF? This is awful. I mean seriously freakin’ awful. It’s aesthetically offensive. Gives me a headache. The titles on the right of the posts don’t even seem to be associated with the posts. They look more like pointless sidebar content or ads. If I had never visited the site, and followed a link to it, I’d immediately say “EWWWW… no!” and go somewhere else before examining any of its content. Seriously. Either put it back like it was, or come up with an all new design; anything but what you’ve got now.

Could you please put the posts titles back where they were, just before the post? Having my eyes ping pong from title to pic every time like this is not only annoying, it is considered bad design. By the way, people on this side of the world usually read from left to right….

My main problem is that there is no way to choose which page to visit! I can’t go back to the old classics, I’d have to hit that button hundreds of times. possibly thousands on some sites. Why is choosing a page number no longer an option?

I absolutely hate the new layout. I can’t get rid of the blue bar at the top, which takes up a huge amount of screen space. The advertising is way in your face. The images take forever to load, and everything about it is clunky. In your own words: EPIC FAIL.

Day 10. I still have the old Memebase. I say I am one of the lucky ones. I’ve evaded them for so long now that when it is over, I will be forced to leave. SO to all who are using the regular memebase. Break them down from underneath.

Whose idea was THIS? I really enjoyed cheesburger but this format is just awful. I really miss the fun that the site used to provide. Hate the format. I have tried to use it but just not worth the effort.

I am very dissapointed in the new site….I come to the site for the hilarious kittehs. Now there are dog and other animals mixed in. If I go to the hottest cat-a gories and pick cats, 1. there are barely any new pics and the old site, the vote tab had dozens on new pics per day amd 2. there are still other animals even though I chose cats.

My boyfriend and I send each other hilaruious cat pics in the morning, it’s a race to see who gets to the new ones first. The new site doesn’t have any new pics ….are people just not putting up new pics cause they don’t like this new site too?

Hi Kimberly. Did you know that there is site dedicated entirely to cats? When you hover your mouse over the “I Can Has” tab on the top navigation bar, a drop down menu will appear with all the ICHC sub-sites listed. Just select “Lolcats” and you’ll see lots of new kitty posts.

Okay. So my favorite site on the network is being shut down. RIP Lovely Listings, which I checked nearly every single day for the last…I dunno, 6 or seven years. I am so very unpleased. I know there are other sites that are funny, but this site pleased my love for weird places. Interesting things that were architecture related. I was/am a hardcore addict of this site, more than even the LOLcats or failblog. Is there anything that can be done? Or do you know of some other site with similar content??? I am bereft :’-( Alas, RIP Lovely Listings – I barely knew ye (because I could never, ever get enough good architecture stuff). This sucks. And I was even going to lump it on the new format, and just get over it. Thanks for the double dis-service. So unhappy!

Yeah, it’s sad to see Lovely Listings being lost in this process. That was one of the better pages on this site.

Meanwhile, I’m one of the lucky ones who is wondering why BETA hasn’t been foisted on me yet? I’m certainly not complaining about that, but I’ve noticed the site hasn’t been as active the last few days. A lot fewer comments.

Sorry CheezBurgers – this Beta carp is strickly for the burds. For one day, we were able to opt out on the “new/old” LOLcats, but nao even with changing to “opt in” to “opt out” it’s Beta. So long ICHC. It’s a sad day in Cheeze Land.

Dealing with the new look and such since I have to, but must comment on this subject, and I have to do it here because I’m not a member (hey, a guest ability to make comments on your “Contact Us” page would be nice as well!!). So, I see the new “Next” button as a reasonable sub for the number links to the next page on a particular site that we used to have, but I REALLY miss having the links to other Cheezburger sites at the bottom!

It was so easy to, when I had reached the bottom of the site I was looking at and was finished with it, ready to go to a new CB site, I could just click on the one I wanted in the lists at the bottom. This business of having to scroll clear back to the top to go to a new site is a RIGHT BLOODY PAIN. Please consider a “back to the top” button or something!

WHY ARE YOU TAKING AWAY LOVELY LISTINGS???? It fulfilled a need for quirky weird places and unusual things that aren’t kitteh related or goggie related or even animal related. It was a gentle, fun site that I literally went back an re-read all the previous posts to when I first discovered it because it made me laugh. I didn’t do that for Lolcats….

Please don’t take Lovely Listings away…you are changing so many things and hurting so many of your loyal fans and it doesn’t seem that you really care at all. I didn’t think this is what Cheezburger was supposed to be when I first started visiting here. So very, very sad….

Who the hell at Cheezburger thought that a minimal and soulless layout would be better than the last one ? I could’ve made a blank HTML page with some images thrown in and it would’ve had the same effect… Not to mention some stupid choices like putting the text on the right or making comments page link barely visible.
Maybe the comment system works a little better now, but I’m sorry to say you totally screwed up for the rest. The new site doesn’t make me want to look at it, and this is clearly a fail for everyone who knows anything about layout design.
But of course none of you will take into account the countless people who says it’s bad, you will go on like this because it’s “new”, like Facebook does… so I’m sorry, but I will be visiting another sites.

Apparently, your “hearing” is quite selective, considering that feedback I’ve seen here and elsewhere around the Cheezburger Network is overwhelmingly negative to the new format. Your claim of “listening” rings hollow when it’s obvious that you’re only hearing what you want to hear.

Hi Pennyforth, thanks for the comment. We are reading all of the comments and we are keeping track of the feedback that gives us specific knowledge about why users do not like the new platform. For example, the layout of the content with the title to the right of the image is a common theme. We recently tested this with a percentage of users by moving the title above the image. The results were not in favor of this layout, so we are going to test a new approach. It is also important to mention that we measure users’ engagement with the new Cheezburger through various analytical methods. The combination of the data we collect through programs that report how users interact with the new Cheezburger and all of the extremely valuable comments we read here, as well as here: http://cheezburger.com/6501098240, in emails we are receiving, and within all the communities on all of the sites is how we are listening. We understand that it seems like we are not listening, but we assure you that we are. We are learning a lot from all of the feedback we are receiving, and we appreciate the passion that everyone has for Cheezburger.

Then why won’t you listen? Everyone is so sad and upset with the changes you’ve made. I understand that the sites have to change to stay up to date with the competition but, I think you went to far, too fast. I stopped visiting the site regularly because it just stopped being funny anymore. The Lol’s weren’t funny. I would go to the comments to find the silliness. Finally all the changes drove EVERYONE away. Have you not noticed that there are almost no comments anymore? You go to Lolcats and it’s like a wasteland. It’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how to help fix this, but do something, show us that you ARE listening. Tell us that you really do care about us…at least say you’re sorry that everyone is upset and has left and to come back, that things will get better.

I don’t think the people at cheezburger/memebase are really listening. Either they’re listening to the wrong people, or not listening to anybody at all and have the WRONG IDEA of what we like. I demand the old memebase back. also What the f*ck is this “New Coke” stuff? Anyways…. I wish I had the Old memebase.

Nope, not listening. Money talks, and the Huh’s are listening to that. I am sorry to be disappointed people I have supported for so long, by visiting their sites daily. They have brought me much happiness. That said, IF they were listening, would they continue to go against their user’s wishes? It’s Bad Business, but that is up to them. We will just have to find someplace better, and that is obviously what we long-time supporters are being told. I still love LOLcats, Fail Nation, etc. but I am very, very disappointed that their wallets aren’t fat enough to simply take the path of least resistance, and allow less popular but great sites to continue to exist. I am now officially shopping around for new sites. I mean, why not? Loyalty? What is that, again? Good luck to us.

Ohai. I’ve been using your website since i started college in 2008, and like many other people, am not overjoyed at the new layout. I just don’t see the need for it. The old layout was working fine- simple, easy to use. I don’t see the need for the other one. I appreciate you guys have worked hard to improve it, but given that the Cheezburger network is about making people smile, it seems that ploughing ahead with it when the majority of you users don’t want it is risking discord for its own sake.

That said, I do appreciate the need to attract new viewers as well as keeping the existing community on side, and if the new Cheezburger format is a way of doing that, then perhaps a good compromise would be to allow users- new and old- to pick which version they want to browse in?

Are you all kidding me? I’ve never heard such bs pissing and moaning. “Why do you feel change is necessary”? I’m guessing all of you who are resistent to change are wearing LL Bean jeans, sporting “The Rachel” haircut and have a bunch of dusty chotskies on your gas-fireplace mantel. Is it buggy? Of course it is – this is a growing company still working out the kinks. As for the whole user poll idea – really? Would any other respectable tech company do that? People are hired for a reason and that’s to make decisions to suit the company it’s user base as a whole. You don’t like the layout or new look? Go hire your own team and build your own damn site. It’s all about building, measuring and learning. So let’s see what shakes out of this whole Beta site change. Patience people, patience. You have trusted Cheezburger in the past so take a deep breath, go dust off your porcelain horse and kitty figurines, grab a glass of wine (or white Zin in many of your cases, I’m sure) and repeat after me: “It will all be alright. My LOLz will be alright. I will provide constructive feedback and be confident that my mature and positive outlook will result in a cleaner, more streamlined Cheezburger. Should my feedback not be taken into account, I will go and donate time or money to a charity instead of getting pissy and moany because, indeed, there is life beyond the internet.” And no, I have no affiliation with Cheezburger. I just can’t stand a bunch of adult babies crying all over the internet when something doesn’t suit them. Now if only Fox news still allowed user comments, I’d go reprimand them too!

I could care less about the new layout – though it isn’t intuitive or better. I care that they are taking down Lovely Listings. That is all.
You may or may not give a crap about that, but that kind of content isn’t easily found. I am a person that adapts easily to change – but locating something comparable to Listings is nigh impossible.

I don’t thing we’re moaning, just expressing our opinion constructively. We like ICHC as it is. There is life beyond the internet, but ICHC is a nice, harmless fun part of the internet that makes people smile, and if it isn’t doing that, people have a right to say.

That said, my earlier comments aside, you are right, this process does involve trial and error, as in any industry.

– The new version takes significantly more time to display the same content. As I’m generally here to look at content, this is irritating. I have also experienced technical problems loading the site’s increased drawn while on mobile devices, and no longer anticipate being able to use my mobile to browse the site. This is my biggest problem with the changes.

– The content is laid out in an unintuitive way. I start reading from the top left; not from the right. Placing titles (and other information) to the right of the image “feels” strange to me. I honestly thought that titles had been removed, on my first impression. As always, making a layout change is going to feel weird when a group of individuals is “trained” on an older layout; could we simply have a layout more similar to the older site, that still includes the new changes? Rearranging elements on the page shouldn’t be that difficult to accomplish.

– The scrolling content at the top of the page is fine, but having the titles of the content obscuring the content itself is strange. Since clicking on any of the images in the scroll will take you to a page that contains only a single image, there’s no way to continuously view images (which is a large selling point for the network).

– The current degree of Facebook integration is irritating for me. When I’m using Facebook, it’s typically for different reasons than when I use the Cheezburger network. I have no desire to integrate my Facebook and Cheezburger usage, and wish that I had the option to ignore said integration. Changing the “priority” in the comments sections could help with this. As a sidenote, could we get a “first on top, newest on bottom” commenting priority?

The top right vs top left could be easily fixed by merely flipping the coding to reflect that. Not a hard fix…I code myself, and have never had a difficulty in deciding to put something that was on the right on the left with a series of cut and pastes to move it, then a review to make sure it’s debugged, though I abhor frames and anything like them. And a top left read is natural to most of the world; there are very few places that do a top right start and go down

And believe me, I agree on the Facebook thing, mere from a stand point of I don’t do Facebook, I don’t do Twitter, I don’t do any social networking beyond message boards and e-mail because I can’t be bothered and I don’t have the equipment, or the money for the equipment and the accounts that have to go with it.

Well, just in case you’re really listening, but just having trouble acting on what we’re saying because production teams REALLY hate backtracking or even looking like they’re backtracking, how about this. You take the old format and put it into a stripped-down version of the new site. As you’re saying, the content is the same, just the front end changed. Well that’s not entirely true, because the back-end changed too, but it’s doing mostly the same thing, so you could still develop a simpler front-end that resembles the old site, right? Make it simple and lightweight, no Javascript gimmickery, because I suspect that’s what’s causing most of the speed/responsiveness issues (and I know that the old site used Javascript too, but at least the site was still functional even with JS disabled – except for the Facebook plugin, but hey, no big loss there). Let’s face it, a lot of people are viewing this site from underpowered mobile devices, old workstations, networks with paranoid sysadmins etc., Javascript is causing a lot of trouble in these cases. Even my 3-year-old computer is feeling the resource squeeze while browsing your new site. So just call it the “low-tech” or “mobile” site and let people choose which one they prefer. I know that maintaining two separate UIs is a hassle, but that’s the only way I can imagine bothering to use the site again, and I’m sure I’m not alone with this.

Well, add my vote to “ain’t comin’ no more” after years of enjoyment. First, you destroy “5 minute getaway” and now you’re forcing this hideous, clunky, slow and ugly new “layout” on everybody, and getting rid of more cool sites that people really enjoy!

So you say you’re “listening”, then LISTEN UP…look at all the comments here…the disgruntled HUGELY outweigh the happies. If you’re REALLY caring about the people who use your site, then RESPOND ACCORDINGLY!

Give us all the option of sticking with the old system, or at least let the old sites stay. You’re eliminating everything that makes this place UNIQUE AND COOL. YOu’re going for the LOWEST common denominator.

Big fails, Cheezeburger! I will not browse a site that crashes my browser every time I go to it. Forget it! And why stick around when you’re gonna push your agenda on everyone and then turn around and say you’re “listening”…what a load…

Earlier I was on Beta (new ICHC) and was not able to view the old version of ICHC. There was no choice BUT to be on the new format. NOW I can only view the old format and there is no choice to be on the new one. I like the old format better but I am confused. Are we now going to have a choice to use the old ICHC, has it switched back to the old format, or is Beta just MIA for awhile, or what?
kthxbai

Some notes to the staff:
-The new cheezburger loads rather slowly or doesn’t load at all in my own, and reading many of these comments, other people’s browsers. To this end Enjoyment of the once great cheezburger network is greatly diminished.
– Many of your core userbase come to your site to get away from facebook and twitter, not be tossed into another wannabe clone.
– The layout is an eyesore. The bright background and cramped layout aren’t reader friendly. Not to mention the title on the right? The most reasonable place to place a title is above the subject, not the right.

Overall, I’d say the classic ICHC layout is miles ahead of this new one. Without an option to opt for the older view I won’t be frequenting your site any more. It was fun while it lasted, but this change is repulsing. Good bye.

I just had a look at Alexa’s traffic stats for the Failblog and Cheezburger sites and it’s not looking good, with a noticeable downward trend from July and especially in August.

They’ll have to take note eventually, just look at how few comments there are over at Failblog. I’m still here because I haven’t been put on the new layout yet (Javascript issues maybe?) but once I am, it’ll be a lot more of a hassle to come here.

Okay, so apparently cheezburger have finally decided to take the better route and give us back the old one………..should I start worshiping them for giving it to us or should I start telling them how foolish they were thinking people would like the beta?

Apparently they don’t care. When the majority of comments are against it, wouldn’t you think they would listen? The only thing to do is to quit buying anything that is in anyway connected with this site. Money talks.

I love how all the mods responding here seem to “miss” the posts asking why this is being implemented when so many people hate the idea.
Basically they’re saying “FCK YOU ALL, WE DO WHATEVER WE WANT.”
That’s the basic feeling I’m getting, and I don’t much appreciate it.
If this is how you treat your users, your site is going the way of Myspace.

It’s true that change can be annoying to users, but that they eventually cave. It’s also true that making your audience “cave” builds resentment, and I think you’re seeing that resentment at ICHC is at the tipping point. Also, change is not always good; it can damage a website’s effectiveness and decimate the number of its followers. (See Digg’s misadventures, as others have mentioned.) I think you are heading down the same road,

Others have described the technical problems so well that I won’t try to. But my gut reaction, visually, is that what used to look like a warm home now looks (with that sea of white) completely soulless, like a bank report. (And why dies the voting option on LOLCats appear in a pale, pale grey, as though you’re hoping we don’t use it?)

My use of this site dropped sharply with the last redesign (having all the valuable options removed while the team works on restoring them is asking a LOT) and now it will drop sharply again.

And an anecdote: I described a recent LOLcat to my doctor, who then wrote down the name of the site because she wanted to visit. She had a hard time even finding LOLcats. She could barely understand the site and described it as “ugly.” Well, first impressions always last. She said she had no intention of returning.

I tried replying earlier, but guess what? I got a “Cheezburger.com is not responding” message followed by “Windows is sending information to Microsoft in order to solve this problem.” message. Way to go, ICHC! Maybe Microsoft will convince you to change back to the old site, which is better-looking, more efficient to read, sensible, and fun! Remember, whether your site lives or dies is in the hands of those who visit it; don’t whizz them off! Why are you being suicidal? Change for the sake of change is the attitude of the loser. People who like the changes, though in the minority, are entitled to their opinion; however, the majority rules! Frankly, I think those who like the new beta site are drones of ICHC who are trying to drum up support for the changes. FAIL!!!!

I don’t often look in the comments after the pictures, mainly due to time constraints, but I have had tears of laughter in my eyes at the hilarious responses–and, at the passing of a few well-loved members, tears of sorrow. I would’ve joined, but the Facebook thing kept me out.
GIVE US BACK OUR OLD ICHC!!!!

Save Lovely Listings!! LOVELYLISTINGS!!!!
And oh, by the way – how are you going to get everyone back once they’re gone? Once you have already dissed them and drove them off in your misguided efforts to “improve”? Someone mentioned that your hits were down? You don’t see this as potentially business ruining? Sad for Cheeseburger, and sad for it’s former users… I hate this. There may come a time when it is too late to “tune it around”. Hmm. This is like a nasty breakup.

I assume you’re shutting down Lovely Listing because it doesn’t draw enough page views. Of course, most casual viewers don’t go beyond ICHC unless a particular image catches their eye and they pursue it to the appropriate category. That’s how I found Lovely Listing – you had a cat-shaped house on ICHC one day. That, however, is the only time I’ve seen a LL item on ICHC – and it’s not as if you only put cat items on the home page. If you promoted all your sites as much as you do the memes and fails, you might get more people to use them. Frankly, I’m tired of seeing pages of LOLcats and Daily Squee transferred to ICHC in their entirety – it makes going to the other sites a lot less interesting.

It seems to me that your organization would do well to review your whole way of operating. If you’ve tested the beta with titles back where they belong and say that wasn’t preferred by your test group, where in the heck did you test? Try using English-reading testers before switching to titles on the right, please. This is not natural to most of us and therefore awkward to read.

Please for the Love of ceilling cat DON’T MAKE US SWITCH TO THE NEW PLATFORM, it blows BIG chunks. I have been a loyal Cheez fan for a very long time and have liked MOST of the changes in the past, but the NEW BETA is Crap. Even Basement Cat is disapointed.

I find myself not visiting this site NEARLY as much as I used to. I do not like the slow loading and the horribly spaced out interface. Its even harder to read on my tablet, so I simply spend more time on other sites. It’s really sad to see what you all have done to this once great site. Grats on myspacing it up in here.

Every morning I’d get ready for work, skim the news, and then head over to the cheezburger network for a much needed pick-me-up before I work my arse off. I fear that I must change my routine, now. The changes you’ve made are an order of magnitude worse than any changes ever made to the gawker network (kotaku, gizmodo, etc) And they were the vilest UI changes I had ever seen. Until now. At least gawker has blog mode as a ‘compromise’ between bad and completely unusable.

Anyway, It was a pleasure laughing with you guys. It’s such a pity that it had to end prematurely due to corporate douchebaggery.

Your new site is disgusting; loads slower or not at all; irritating and unfriendly; and kind of generically ugly to look at. Thanks for ruining yet another portion of the internet that used to be worth going to. Between decisions like this and the U. S. Government trying to sabotage the internet I figure very soon I’ll be able to save fifty bucks a month and drop my ISP in favor of the local library.

This new format is truly a mistake. I can barely access the ‘Lolcats’ which were the reason for me joining the site in the first place; I’ve actually had windows opened on my computer by the site WITHOUT my permission and I can’t post anything to Facebook when I wish to. Please give us the option of remaining with the old site or you will be driving many of your membership to abandon the site.

I, for one(and much like many others) absolutely despise the new changes. You’re taking out many of the sites we like and putting the remaining ones on a platform we’ve constantly complained about. Have you not noticed the comments that simply have the line “NO BETA IN MY CHEEZBURGER!” repeated literally thousands of times? If there’s a technical or financial reason why the new version works better, I understand, but if not, keep the old version! It’s better! And then there’s the actual content of the sites: You’re removing good stuff like LFMF and keeping the crap like Dolan, despite complaints about it. Are you TRYING to lose all your users, and as result, your ad revenue? You’re going to bankrupt yourselves like this!

If that’s the case, then here’s another suggestion: BRING BACK ALL THE SITES YOU’VE “QUIETLY” KILLED IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO! I can name two to begin with right now: “Friends of Irony” and “FIVE MINUTE GETAWAY”…

If you CHEEZEBUTTS might notice, your “new” Five Minute Getaway is a MASSIVE FAIL, as well! BRING BACK THE OLD SITE! AND TAKE IT OUT OF THE HIDEOUS “FAIL” CATEGORY!!!!!! That move made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!

Did it change or it’s just me, because I went to http://lolcats.icanhascheezburger.com/ and the old one is back! :]]
Well, if it IS, ty cheezburger. But if it’s just me..remove the new format, NOW. Look at how many people are hatin’ D:

You have left us no way to vote on the new site? Seems that none of the comments that so many of us have made have been considered.
The new site has so many faults, that I would really lik to know who your designers and decision makers are, so I can never make the mistake of hiring them for any web design or social media projects that I might have.

Again –
1. ads are now completely invisible…I rarely have my window open wide enough to see one column, much less both.
2. Multiple animated ads on both sides of screen are so annoying as to cause people to make the window smaller, and therefore they will never be seen.
(The ads never bothered me before – they were totally non-intrusive. I always noticed them there, and occasionally clicked on them. No more.)
3. Caption above pic was better than captio to the right.
4. GoTo Page Number was much better than just PrevNext.

You can have your new look, your new navigation menu, your new banner ads, but the layout of the “meat” of this site, the pics we all come here for, is really terrible.
Come on – this is easy to get right!

If you truly car about the feedback from the community, you (the mods) would be addressing the fact that the reception of this “beta” is mostly, if not completely, negative. But the only comments I have seen from you (the mods) are in regards to the new commenting system on the “beta.” I will make this clear. So far all I have seen is that the mods have lied to us. They have decided that our feedback isn’t important enough for them. They have proven that they don’t care about the users, they only care about money. And I will say this to the mods. It will hurt you in the long run. People have already begun to disperse when they realized that the terrible “beta” you keep preaching is going to become a reality. If you want to keep your fans and users, you will do away with the beta, and leave the sites we have come to enjoy unchanged. However, if you keep the “beta,” i will have no other choice then to say “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

I used to enjoy dropping by and looking at Cheezburger, and There I Fixed it, etc. Now, the websites don’t seem to load very fast, they freeze up, and I get a headache from the bright colors/new layout combo. Not half as enjoyable as the old website. I find I’m not looking here daily like I used to, maybe once a week or so. I’m guessing you are losing your fan base…

First you adopt a horrible “new” layout and now you are eliminating most of the sites that I’ve remained here for. Lovely Listings, learn from my fail, my food looks funny, my little moment of win… You’re totally killing this site! Why? Life is hard enough and now you’re ruining my favorite site. I am now ‘forever sad’

When I go to the LOLcats site in the new ICHC almost all of the visible LOLs (about the last 10 are showing) have no comments – that’s zero! A couple of LOLs have 2 or 3 but effectively the social chat and witty comments are gone. We who would once frequent this site daily – or hourly for many – have asked and asked for some of the better and more sociable aspects of the “old” ICHC to be retained. They have not been. The result is startling! Can’t you see it or do you just not care?
Very sad. I can’t believe you at Cheezburger are still saying you made the changes ‘we’ wanted.
Not really worth bothering to come here any more. The fun is gone.

Been on vacation and catching up on the blog. Once Beta came on, I started using it exclusively to get used to it and made recommendations for improvements. I did not read all 500+ comments but did randomly scan about 200, mostly all negative. I noted that one that said that people who do not actively dislike the site will likely not comment here. I thought I would comment as I consider myself part of the resident community and spend quite a bit of time here every day. Yeah, there are technical problems which I believe will be fixed (Ben and company don’t like technical snafus any more than we do). Yeah, there are features I do and do not like (you can’t please everyone all the time). They do listen because many old features were incorporated into Beta. The bottom line for me is that this is a free site and I can play here as much as I want. I can keep touch with many, many friends whom I care about through the DB simultanously. I can create, fave and comment on LOLs without being on FB. I don’t block the ads; I just ignore them. This is a business, not a not for profit site run exclusively by volunteers. There is a payroll to be met for many people employed by ICHC. The only way to generate money aside from charging for usage time is through ads and the LOLmart. It’s not all about the money if u follow FP postings and the blog which feature oganizations and stories about people who care about animals and wonderful stories about special animal companions. While people who do not like the new look or features and/or do not like change may drop out, others will drop in who have never known anything but Beta. We will continually have the ability to recommend changes under Beta, some will be implemented and some will not for various reasons. Transition from one platform to another is always difficult for the people who run a site and for us who use it. Count me in as a big fan of ICHC who won’t leave because of too much white, too many ads, too many this or too little of that. As long as I can come here and get my happy and meet with my friends, I aint leaving 🙂

I have enjoyed Cheezburger tremendously over the last few years, and when you announced the new beta, I honestly tried it for a solid month to try and get a feel for it…

… unfortunately, the feeling was never a good one.

The new site just isn’t that user friendly. It’s structure while simpler is not as compelling – it feels like there are too many thing missing like search and navigation. Being able to jump to page 4 or 5 made it easier to find where I left off after I had been away for a bit and wanted to catch up. Also it’s disappointing that you are dropping some of the categories. 9 to 5, There I Fixed It and WIN! are several of my favorites.

On the new Cheezburger beta comments the positive thumbs up don’t even make 1% of the total vote. That seems to me to be a pretty significant indicator of your core viewers. I’ve developed websites and I know working with a developer is not cheap. But, balancing new site performance against lost revenue from your ads because of viewership alienation just doesn’t make good business sense IMHO.

I know you really wanted to upgrade the platform, but I honestly believe your revenue stream will not be up to your requirements with the “new look” PLEASE reconsider!

i think it’s hilarious that so many people assume that because mainly angry people leave comments everyone must be angry and full of hate.

on that note, i LOVE the new cheezeburger. the pages are clean and easy to read, it’s SO easy to share things on fb now (i’m not a twitterer, so can’t comment on that). it’s great! my only hope is that you bring back infinite scroll. that is FANTASTIC.

also, while browsing through all the vitriol i saw someone say that you are thinking of dropping lovely listing. i know it’s kind of a niche page and probably doesn’t get the traffic of, say, failblog, but i love it. please keep it!

plz change it back!!!! the vote page has diapered!!!! and i cant leave a comment on a pic because i don’t have a facebook!!! and i cant rate a pic, and i couldnt figure out how to fav for a week! plus you guys said you would make the page less white! it still looks just as boring as ever! change it back or you will lose alot of views!!

Well, I can’t access any old things. I guess we lost the war. There’s one thing I like with the new commenting system. I can now edit my comments and even rate my comments. Also, I would like to suggest that you should allow people to customize their new front page like choose their colors, give them the ability to place titles or ratings on certain places on each post, and allow people to turn on or turn off infinite scroll. Follow my advice and you’ll extinguish some of the fire that you have ignited.

I liked being able to choose whether I could look at videos, just captions and that kind of thing. Now it is gone. Do you think you could add that to this site? The videos never really interested me. As well, there are only a few burgers per page. It seems like you could try to get a few more on there so we don’t have to go through the pain of loading every couple of minutes.

Yes, I was just about to post about that too. http://lolcats.icanhascheezburger.com, scifi.icanhascheezburger.com, animalcapshunz.icanhascheezburger.com are currently old format…. over on failblog, the School and Music and Dating Fails are are old version (yay!) but others on ICHC (Monday Thru Friday, Puns, History) are doing the auto-redirect to Beta (boo!) and there seems to be no logic to it.

CLEARLY. even the site itself doesn’t want to make this transition, and is trying to wrest control from its evil overlords and revert to its glorious, natural state one site at a time. Fight the good fight, self-aware ICHC!!! Thousands of CheezPeeps are depending on you!,

This is the way it always goes. There’s an originality and spark to the original premise, then the money becomes more important than anything and takes over.

The problem is, once you take the “Mom and Pop” corporate, it’s not Mom and Pop anymore. It’s corporate. You can’t be both.

The new site is bad for all the reasons that many people have more articulately expressed than I. But it appears like you are going to just wait for the dissatisfaction to die down and announce to yourselves that the new site is better. Sigh.

Hi Jadzia – In regards to the freezing issue, can you let me know what browser you are using? We’re working on fixing that issue. Also with Animal Memes, you can find Animal Memes at: http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/tag/memes Thanks! Emily

Thanks for replying Emily. I’m using the latest version of Firefox. The freeze varies in length now. Earlier this afternoon it was just a few seconds, but tonight it was at least 30 seconds. Thanks for letting me know about Animal Memes. I’m so relived it isn’t gone.

Well, today, after many days of holding out hope, my old style sites have all gone to the Beta design. It was a good three years, filled with many lols and such. However, since you seem to be determined to try to make me like a site that causes so many issues, (again, on two separate computers on two completely different networks) you can kiss my grits, and I hope your traffic that Alexa is showing at a pretty drastic decline is a comfort to you when you go the way of Digg.

i’ve never left a comment before, and i apologize for being one of those people you only hear from when i’m unhappy; on the other hand i’m hoping it makes the point that i feel strongly about this: i REALLY dislike the new format, specifically the fact that there are java-based, hyper-distracty ads on BOTH sides of the center-page content now, which makes it feel like i’m metaphorically being smacked on both sides of my face the entire time i’m here.

i realize the whole point IS to make the ads prominent and UN-ignorable, so let me congratulate you on success there. what’s more, i *get* that this is your business, you have to please yourself and your investors, and of course selling ad space at top dollar has to be job one! but those of us out here in the world who have a hard time focusing in the face of large distractions are sadly not going to be able to stand it, so i thank you very much indeed for all of the fun of the last few years and wish you well with your new business model!

I was reading the comments and was thinking ‘damn, I’ve lost cheezburger and failbog’ because I won’t be coming back if it stays like this. I’ll check in, in a month or so to see if anything’s changed but if it hasn’t I’ll move on.
I’ve loved this site over the years and enjoyed all the different sections, sometimes visited three times a day but I fail to see how anything in the beta is an improvement and they’ve completely killed how the site works to chase revenue streams.
They’re gonna lose everyone and I sincerely hope they see the light before it’s too late, maybe it’s too late already?
I suggest they get a refund from the web designers, plug in the old server and be done with it.
Everything else I was going to say is already in your post, so thanks for saving me the time 😉

I’ve been a frequent visiter of this site for many years, and it has brought me many lulz. The new format is not user friendly, everything seems to blink when I scroll, and takes forever to load and sometimes freezes up all together. I deleted my book marks for your site, which made me sad. I understand money, and the need of it, or trying to be more “mobile device friendly”, but theres a good chance I won’t be back. Just not enjoyedable to look at any anymore. Good luck in the future.

I just wanted to say that the beta site isn’t easy to navigate. It was also difficult for me to find the search for Lolz button. And once found, it was a bit irritating that only 3-5 items would show up before you have to load the next page. Other than that, it’s is fine. Not a fan of the feel of the beta either. Will miss some of the old features such as “You May Also Like:” and other site suggestions.

I am one of the users (who I suspect are not being vocal, because they have no complaints) who like Beta and am enjoying using it. I think the new look is very clean and easy to read, and I haven’t found anything about that interferes with my fun making and seeing LOLS. For a week or so the site was rather slow (which also turned out, in my case, to be partially a problem with my own server), but that is to be expected when a software change is going on during real time. I LIKE IT, LOVE ICHC, AND HAVE NO COMPLAINTS! Betsy

I can’t even view the picture’s now on the new memebase let alone pull up the picture’s on the webpages tab’s. Did you completely forget that some people still have Dial-up internet with a 26.4KBps internet speed? The old memebase had some problem’s loading page’s but at least it freaking had some of them load. If you won’t go back to the old format could you at least make a light version on the site with out all the stupid facebook and twitter plug in’s that bog down my all ready horribly slow internet speed?

As long as I can get to LOLcats, I don’t care. I’d like to be able to go there immediately and skip the rest. Is that possible?
I need to change my email to berniee2000@hotmail.com. I hardly every use lycos anymore.
Thanks.
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The new site cannot be seen correctly on all computers. Don’t like the layout at all , when I can see it. A site that I used to visit frequently I don’t bother doing anymore. You’ve inundated your viewers with the most ridiculous sections, My Little Brony. You’ve forgotten your original fan base. This change should be under Learn From My Fail, Cheeseburger Network you’ve failed on this one. Very disappointed in this.

What I don’t understand is that your older, core visitors have overwhelmingly told you they hate the new format, yet it remains in place for some of the sister sites. I could deal with the overload of flashing advertisement sites when scrolling through the Squee site. Now it’s like I get four pictures before I have to click the “Next” button and heaven forbid I have a slow internet connection. I have no issues with a site trying to make money from advertising. That’s part of the modern model. But I don’t get how you keep getting nothing but complaints from loyal users and still use the hated format. Personally, I used to visit some of your advertisers, BUT I WILL NOT VISIT ANY ADVERTISERS ON CHEEZBURGER NETWORK until you return to the older accepted format. Also, NO THANKS FOR IGNORING GOOD LOL’S CREATED BY THOSE WHO HAVE VOICED THEIR DISLIKE FOR THE CURRENT FORMAT. You seem to favor lol’s created by those who have not said anything negative, any many of them ARE NOT FUNNY. Yes, I am yelling in caps. You guys deserve it until you get rid of whatever it is you are drinking.

i mostly really hate how every site use to have their own url bar favicon and now, not only its all the same, its also impossible to find even just pictures of the old favicons. why? bring them back! at list realist their pictures!

Since today I am not able to access “Old Cheezeburger” (mainly Failbook) anymore and I don’t want to only cry at you that I don’t like the new layout, which would be the truth but that doesn’t help anyways…

So, here are my two cents or more about the new layout; suggestions, likes and dislikes:

*) All in all I like the new design even though it misses the different themes and colors every site had on the old layout. You knew if you were on HistoricLOLs or if you were at Failbook+ just by looking at the colors.
*) Please keep the “infinite scroll” thing away or at least make it optional if a user wants to use it or if he wants to have the next button.
*) I don’t visit the sites every day, sometimes I only visit it every three days or less when real life gets in the way, so I like to browse through the newly added LOLs until I reach the LOLs I’ve already seen. Because of timezone (I am in Europe) the note saying “xx hours ago” doesn’t really help, I better like how the old layout said “posted August XX, 2012”
*) A BIG THANK YOU FOR BRINGING BACK VOTING! (That’s one of the things I really appreciate about the new layout.)
Now everything about comments:
*) I am – or was – part of a big community in the Failbook comments and that was the part about Cheezeburger I liked the most and a huge part of the fun was that I didn’t have to check all the LOL’s I had commented on if there are replies because WordPress was keeping track of it for me. I hope you guys will work something out like this with the new comment system.
*) I appreciate that users can like or flag comments and that you can edit your own comments (one of the things I missed in the WordPress comments)
*) I don’t really like how the comments are a little mess right now:
**) Nesting doesn’t really work, you can only reply to a comment but not to a reply. Well, that surely can be fixed by putting “@UserIreplyto” on the beginning of that reply.
**) Newest comment on top? Really? Are you Facebook or what? Please change this or at least make it optional.
*) Like I already said, I was mainly lurking and commenting on Failbook+ and usually I was browsing through the posts one at a time by browsing through the comment sections and then clicking on the next LOL via the link on top of the fail. Would be nice to have this function on the new layout too.

These are my suggestions, likes and dislikes about the new layout. Not everything is bad about the new layout but there are a few things to approve, as far as I see it.

Thanks for listening to me and I hope I could help to improve your network.

Hey guys, can you bring back the dogtags somehow to the main page of IHAH? I don’t find all dogs cute/interesting and frequently used to look up specific breed pics/vids only. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one since I had several people ask me since the new changes how do you look up just breed “x” on IHAH.

Don’t ike the new version. Not pretty, and where’s the list of all the sites gone that was on the bottom of every page? I see it here, but I just came from two different sites that didn’t have it on them.

And every time I click ‘next’ or ‘previous’, I get a page error that says ‘endpoint not found’.

It’s an extremely rare thing for me to comment anywhere on the Internet in general. I don’t expect you to believe this, but I honestly don’t care, so just let me say my piece, since you felt the need to delete one of my previous posts here. Almost all of the people who have commented here don’t like your format. You have continually ignored almost every single concern posted here. The only concerns you have answered are those who don’t actively bash you. I have done my best not to do so, in the hopes that you will answer my question. Why, after all the negative feedback you have received, both before and after implementing your Beta site, did you make the decision to do so without making any significant changes whatsoever?

All I want is an honest answer. I’ll make the decision on whether or not to come back based on a). whether or not you at least attempt to answer, or b). whether or not said answer amounts to more than an excuse

Well until you guys come to your senses and get rid of this crappy new format I will visit a different meme site. I can’t even view any of the sites without my browser crashing. I enjoyed my time here, I really did now I don’t have much of a choice but to find a new site.

Hi again, Ben, Emily, and team: I still see much to return to here. I know I’ll eventually be conversant with the new platform; many others are reacting angrily out of a sense of nostalgia, frustration, and loss.
There are no good answers to that; change is uncomfortable for most people and change occurs at such an accelerated pace these days. Some are adapting by creating “regrown” communities on other blogs and Soc-net sites. I see that working in some cases! I will continue to visit and support you when I can, although I am now helping care for my sister who has multiple cancers. I cheer her up with your stuff! Good luck and Blessings. Bonnie
PS will we be able to search for older LOLs and collections? I can’t find the one of “cat toes” and my Silvertoes is in it!

I really liked the “old” cheezburger where you could look at all the Doctor Who related photos and films. I can’t find a way to look at only Doctor Who on the “new” cheezburger. I also agree that not being able to see all the comments on the pictures is a bummer. Frequently, I liked an “older” comment better that the current one.

I like the infinite scrolling, it’s the only reason I kept coming back to BETA. But if you choose to bring it back you should include a feature to turn it off for people that don’t want it.
I do miss a ‘search’ feature, and I can’t find any ‘categories’ or ‘tags’ (like’video’) anymore, which is a shame.
And is there anything I could do to make the site load faster and keep it from crashing? I didn’t experience those problems with the old cheezburger.
Thanks.

Now when I go to the website, it says there are problems with the security certificate. Also, we can’t go back to the old ICHC site. Well, hope you had fun being stubborn, rebellious and downright stupid. I’m not coming here again. You’ll fail before long.

Would like to know hits on LOLS. Don’t see as many. Has the format changed?
Would like to find what favorite someone favorited. They are stored in various places and hunting them down after a few days is frustrating and sometimes impossible. What happened to Sports? Roger Goodell threatening suit? Probably impossible but would like to know just like making homepage, did I make the vote page without wading through it. Thanks. Still enjoying it, but so much more info seems to dilute the effect of one’s own LOLS somewhat. I am somewhat competitive about that. Maybe there should be some competitions.

i also must agree with previous comments i do not enjoy the new format. and it appears that lfmf has dissapeared or am i just blind? considering that is the page that got me hooked i’m dissapointed. been coming to this page for years and now only bother once every three weeks or so. please restore LFMF and the original format.

OK. I have given the new site some time… but it is terrible. It locks up. And also, why did you rearrange everything. The LOL cats should be the first place to go since it was what made this site. But hey… who am I to comment? Oh.. wait..I am someone that visits the site. The reason this site exists…. you guys suck.

Thought I would add, that you can’t bookmark individual comments any more (ie so you can come back to your own posts to see if you’ve gotten a reply). All you can do is bookmark the whole page and then keep pressing the “Next” button at the bottom over and over and hope that you eventually find your post.

Also, those comments would flow better in the other direction, reading from first to last so you get the full conversation.

Why do people have to fix shit that aint broken? My question (2 actually) is, did your beta tests give you as much feedback as the 2 dozen pages of comments above, and if so, was it 95% against the change like the above (and included) are? These people that have taken their (our) time to leave comments about this change seem like it is your long term, steadfast audience. Why have you not listened to all of their feedback before choosing to switch platforms? What was a really cool site, could have just netflixed themselves and reversed all that progress of attaining readers (and especially regular readers!).

My other question is, Are you taking it totally off WP? Because i find your content in my reader on WP and then it links me to your site. It is great because i get to see all the new stuff come up without having to leave a site that has all of the stuff i like to read.

You are the second humor site in a year that has taken themselves off of WP. The other one, i have never seen since. I do not know where to find them (i could do some digging and find them i am sure, but i havent really had the desire. There will be someone who will replace them on WP eventually.). I dont get why you are choosing to leave WP. Maybe if we knew the reasons behind this unnecessary fix, it would lend you guys some empathy towards the move… Right now, just feels like trying to break something that isnt broken.

I have a challenge: Why don’t you post your reasons for ignoring all the non-positive comments for all your faithful old-school readers who come to this page to see if you’ve come to your senses?

YOU JUST MIGHT DIFFUSE (maybe) at least SOME OF THE ILL-WILL YOU HAVE GENERATED TOWARD YOURSELVES.

Your silence is deafening.

What “devil” did you folks make a deal with? What OTHER reason would you possibly have to ignoring all the good folks who made you what you are?

No, I don’t want an “email to that address”…I WANT A PUBLIC POSTING FROM YOU! That way, maybe all the faithful folks that keep reloading this page will at least have some closure and mourn your Internet Suicide.

In all honesty I foresaw the downfall of the Cheezburger network when collections were cancelled. I do apologize but those were one of the huge things that kept me coming back to this website. After this, “Beta testing” had begun on the new site. I gave the beta a chance and upon further sight of it I realized I really couldn’t stand it thus making me opt out. While I understand what you are trying to do here at ICHC and appreciate that you’re trying to keep up with the times, the way you’re going about it is flawwed. One of the great pieces to the original Cheezburger site was its pure simplicity. It made it easy to browse and, in turn, laugh with. Unfortunately all of this has been changed and so, I respectfully submit to the ICHC team my resignation as a constant viewer of the site. You’ve changed, but not for the better. With this I say goodbye and good luck from the bottom of my heart and that if you ever do change for the better I can be found at 4chan.

Well, the history problem seems to have gone away – the page now scrolls without creating history, although if I click somewhere e.g. to vote then it starts accumulating history again, but fortunately this has an easy workaround, I just need to click “back”.

My only remaining problem is that infinite scroll makes the site too easy to use. I really ought to stop after about 50 LOLs but I have to watch like a hawk to see how many pages I’ve read.

Before infinite scrolling, the new site was just about bearable on an old 3GHz PC – I could even browse and watch a video at the same time. Mind you, WordPress went and shot themselves in the foot too; their new image resizing script also eats CPU. Sigh.

The history accumulation behaviour has also changed slightly – you don’t get an anchor in the new page, so I have to remember to check the Back button menu to see whether I remembered to go back.

I hate the new version too..I feel like it loads a little bit faster , but so much has changed..everything is just a complete mess…i hate how the captions are listed on the left of everything too, I feel like im reading hebrew…and you guys got rid of the good sections and added some lame stuff….i love this site so much..but very disappointed and also…my username is searchable in google and anyone can pull up my favorites….as for work and stalkers, I dont want them checking up on my internet activites…there should be an option to make that private so not just anyone can see it

You know where I would like to see infinite scrolling? On the comments pages! Clicking More all the time gets really annoying.

I’d also like to see how infinite scrolling deals with new posts arriving while you’re still reading the old ones. Seeing the same post at the top of the next page was a little annoying, and maybe infinite scrolling doesn’t have that problem, which would be neat.

The only thing that really bugs me about this new Cheezburger site is the fact that it just keeps loading the pictures, so it’s just one really long page. The option to go to the last page is not there anymore, which I loved since I always started on a new Cheez site on the last page. Just fix that problem and I’ll be happy.

I hate this site since you changed it…before it I visited a bunch of your site daily and spent hours here…Nowadays, everytime I click memebase I have tears on my face.I tried to get used to it but it is impossible, everytime i see the new ICHC i wanna punch my screen. I want the old heesburger back, like the most people. Why are you so obsessed with this new ICHC? Why aren’t you doing sometning to prewent all this complain, to get back old viewers? Why is this good for you? I just want answers.I loved this site, and losing it hurts so much…pls reply meh.

I was just browsing ICHC and I’m impressed. You had a community of bored cat obsessed middle aged housewives and you’ve actually managed to get them to shut up and stop talking lolspeak. Husbands all over the world will be installing this new not-commenting (comnotting?) system.

I hate the new version. I’ve switched to looking at everything via the wayback archive so I can view older pictures without having to wait a year for it to reach back that far via the new system. Add an opt out option please.

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Now that this new look is the only option, I barely ever come on this site. I come by about once every month or so and all I look at is the Ugliest Tattoos page. I used to come by every day, multiple times a day and look at Memebase, Art of Trolling, Emos… But yeah. Now I’m never on this site and it’s all because of that godawful layout. It looks terrible, it’s clunky and hard to navigate and it’s just not worth coming on to see. Most of the content is found on other webpages, anyway. You really shit the bed with this one, guys. I’d love to see the number of hits you get per day now compared to what you used to. Can’t be looking too good, and you should take the hint. No point in changing it back now because most users hate you for not listening to their thoughts and opinions and won’t want to support your site. Should’ve listened to them in the first place and avoided all this crap. If you change it back now, most people don’t even come on enough to notice, and if they do, they hate you for not doing it sooner and listening to them. Face it. The site is going to die because you didn’t listen to your fans. Just a matter of time and I have to say I think you deserve it. Should’ve taken the hint.

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